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New records of the Colombian Clawed Gecko Pseudogonatodes furvus (Ruthven 1915) (Sauria: Sphaerodactylidae) in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
sphaerodactylid lizard, whose type locality is San Lorenzo, at 1,500 m elevation, and is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a mountain range in northern Colombia (Fig. 1). The genus was described based on this species and presently contains other six little-know species distributed from Colombia to Peru (Huey and Dixon, 1970; Avila-Pires and Hoogmoed, 2000; Uetz and Hosek, 2014). The morphological diagnostic features of P. furvus (Ruthven 1915, Fig. 2) are: elongate and little depressed body with two longitudinal vertebral folds, and tubercular dorsal scales; head long and narrow, almost twice longer than wide; the snout tip is pointed, ear opening very small, and rostral scale large with a slit in the dorsal surface (Ruthven 1915). Lizards of this species are brown, with a violet tonality under light; sides with small, round and gray spots in two rows from head to the groin. On the back, individuals exhibit two rows of pale spots; on the tail, they exhibit two broken dark olive lines. The belly is dark olive and the pelvic region is darker with irregular stinks; the ventral area of the tail is dark (Ruthven 1915) Between 1 – 3 November of 2013, a field expedition was conducted to the small town of Palmor, Cienaga, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, department of Magdalena, Colombia (Latitude 10.760833, Longitude -73.988889; DATUM= WGS84, Fig. 1). There, we recorded two individuals of Pseudogonatodes furvus (Table 1) in a premontane forest remnant at 1,400 m elevation (Fig. 2). One individual was a juvenile (total body length = 30 mm) was in the wet litter; another one was a female (total body length= 45 mm) found under a fallen trunk adjacent to a stream. Both individuals were collected and deposited in the Herpetological collection of the Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia (CBUMAG-REP 0031-0032). The last published records of P. furvus were in the town San Pedro on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (15 km in direction Herpetology Notes, volume 7: 609-610 (2014) (published online on 25 October 2014)