Aurélien Miralles

Reverse taxonomy of fish-scale geckos (Geckolepis) using shotgun sequencing for museomics-based assignment of historical names to genetic lineages

Fish-scale geckos (Geckolepis), endemic to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, are nocturnal, arboreal lizards with large, imbricate scales that can be shed and regenerated in their entirety, most likely as an antipredator mechanism. Their species-level taxonomy has remained partly unresolved because morphology alone ha...