If the Uroplatus pictures are not the Uroplatus alluaudi (I'm guessing they
are) then there was a close relative of Uroplatus alluaudi described in 1994.
It is named Uroplatus malahelo Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1994. Besides this
taxon there has only been one other species described in the past 7 years and
that was Uroplatus malama Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1995. In this same
publication (Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1995) the Uroplatus geckos were
subdivided into three sections (the monophyly of these groups has not been
tested)
1. the fimbriatus group;
containing Uroplatus fimbriatus, U. lineatus, U. sikorae (including the
"subspecies" Uroplatus sikorae sameiti), and U. henkeli
2. the ebenaui group;
containing Uroplatus ebenaui and U. phantasticus (reinstated by Nussbaum and
Raxworthy [1995] as a valid species), and U. malama
3. the alluaudi group;
containing Uroplatus alluaudi, U. guentheri (this could also be the "new
species" pictured at Uroplatus.com), and U. malahelo
To my knowledge and according to the latest Gecko species list (Kluge, 2001)
there are only 10 species of Uroplatus)
REFERENCES:
Kluge, A. G. 2001. Gekkonid Lizard Taxonomy. Hamadryad, 26(1): 1-209.
Nussbaum, R. A., and C. J. Raxworthy. 1994. A new species of Uroplatus
Dumeril (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern Madagascar.
Herpetologica, 50(3): 319-325.
Nussbaum, R. A., and C. J. Raxworthy. 1995. New Uroplatus Dumeril (Reptilia:
Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the ebenaui-group from the Anosy Mountains of
southern Madagascar. Copeia, 1995(1): 118-124.
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