Gonatodes albogularis
(Duméril & Bibron, 1836) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Gonatodes albogularis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility44 324 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI16 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics24 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Gonatodes albogularis, which has been called a number of vernacular names in English, is a smallish species of gecko found in warm parts of Central and South America, Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica. They prefer to live in tropical dry forest habitats. It is sexually dimorphic: the male is colourful, while the female is a more drab grey. The fingers do not have lamellar pads for climbing smooth surfaces like many other geckos but instead have normal claws like most lizards. At one time the species had a breeding population in southern Florida, especially Key West, but this population appears to have died out by the early 1990s. They are believed to be able to tell the difference between brightness and hues of conspecifics. Males are incredibly aggressive with territory defense against both other males and potential predators.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology3
Life cycle & reproduction7
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Gonatodes albogularis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
How it livedPBDB
Record type44 324 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions15 of 44 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS)location not on record | 374 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 349 |
| Berkeley, US | 211 |
| Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record | 162 |
| Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record | 158 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 153 |
| Los Angeles, US | 92 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 81 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 80 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 79 |
| Grupo Prodecolocation not on record | 29 |
| Washington, US | 26 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 26 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 21 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 15 |
| PROMIGAS S.A. E.S.P. (Promigas)location not on record | 15 |
| Cambridge, US | 15 |
| CASlocation not on record | 15 |
| Drummond Energy Inclocation not on record | 15 |
| Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record | 12 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 11 |
| Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó (UTCH)location not on record | 10 |
| Universidad del Magdalena (UniMagdalena)location not on record | 10 |
| University of Texas at Arlingtonlocation not on record | 9 |
| New Haven, US | 9 |
| IAvHlocation not on record | 6 |
| Universidad de los Llanos (UniLlanos)location not on record | 6 |
| Universidad del Valle de Guatemalalocation not on record | 5 |
| Mexico City, MX | 5 |
| Saint John, CA | 4 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 3 |
| Universidad del Vallelocation not on record | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 2 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 2 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 2 |
| Brussels, BE | 2 |
| München, DE | 2 |
| Universidad Icesi (ICESI)location not on record | 2 |
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| Universidad EAFIT (EAFIT)location not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Autonoma de Chiriquilocation not on record | 1 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
| CVNlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Pamplona (UPamplona)location not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Gonatodes albogularis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.