An international team of researchers has described a new species of miniaturized gecko in the genus Pseudogonatodes from the Peninsula de Paria in northeastern Venezuela. Pseudogonatodes fuscofortunatus. Image credit: Schargel et al., doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae120. The newly-identified species belongs to Pseudogonatodes, a small genus of sphaerodactylid geckos that includes less than ten scientifically recognized species. Often known as South American...
