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Uroplatus phantasticus BOULENGER, 1888                        

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Sauria (lizards)
Genus	Uroplatus
Species epithet	phantasticus
Subspecies
Author	BOULENGER
Year	1888
Common Name
Synonym	Uroplates phantasticus BOULENGER 1888: 101 Uroplatus schneideri LAMBERTON 1913 (fide ANGEL 1942) Uroplatus phantasticus — ANGEL 1942: 79 Uroplatus phantasticus — WERMUTH 1965: 187 Uroplatus ebenaui — KLUGE 1993 Uroplatus phantasticus — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 273 Uroplatus phantasticus — RÖSLER 1995: 164
Location	E/SE/S Madagascar (Perinet) Terra typica: Madagascar.
Holotype
Comment	BAUER & RUSSELL (1989) synonymized U. phantasticus with U. ebenaui.
References	Angel, F. 1942. Les Lézards de Madagascar. Mem. Acad. Malagache, Tananarive XXXVI: 193 pp. Arai, Y. 1996. In the Spotlight - Uroplatus phantasticus Jour. Int. Gecko Soc. 3 (1): 7-8 Arai, Yuji 1996. In the spotlight: Uroplatus phantasticus (Boulenger, 1888) Dactylus 3 (1): 7-8 Bauer, A. M. and A. P. Russell 1989. A systematic review of the genus Uroplatus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) with notes on its biology. J. Nat. Hist. 23:169-203 Boulenger, G. A. 1888. Descriptions of new Reptiles and Batrachians from Madagascar. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 1: 101-107. Glaw,F. & Vences,M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Köln (ISBN 3-929449-01-3) GREENBAUM, Eli; AARON M. BAUER, TODD R. JACKMAN, MIGUEL VENCES & FRANK GLAW 2007. A phylogeny of the enigmatic Madagascan geckos of the genus Uroplatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 1493: 41-51 Lamberton 1913. Description d’un nouvel uroplate de Madagascar (Reptiles: Sauriens). Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 19:558-562 Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp. Schönecker, P. 2006. Plattschwanzgeckos (Uroplatus) Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. Schönecker, P. & Böhle, A. 2004. Die Geckogattungen Madagaskars. Draco 5 (19): 56-67 Wolf, S. 2004. Reise in den Osten Madagaskars. Draco 5 (19): 22-29