Also called the "Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko" ...

However, it remains unclear what drives and regulates the global patterns of color variation over a long time scale. A research team studied 10,638 images of 1,249 species of scaled reptiles to ...

The reptile section comprises four chapters focusing ... clear anatomical line diagrams, and color and radiographic images. Each section contains excellent references, and the text as a whole ...

whereas other populations contain more-familiar color morphs that have alternating dark and light patches or stripes. The key to this apparent melanistic adaptation, the authors of the study suggest, ...