New gecko species identified in West African rain forests

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

The West African forest gecko, a secretive but widely distributed species in forest patches from Ghana to Congo, is actually four distinct species that appear to have evolved over the past 100,000 years due to the fragmentation of a belt of tropical rain forest, according to a report in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B...

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