Aristelliger

Aristelliger
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Family:	Sphaerodactylidae
Genus:	Aristelliger Cope, 1862 [1]
Species
Eight, see text.

Aristelliger is a genus of Caribbean geckos, in the family Sphaerodactylidae ^[2] commonly known as croaking geckos.

Species

• Aristelliger barbouri Noble and Klingel, 1932 – Inagua gecko
• Aristelliger cochranae Grant, 1931 – Cochran's croaking gecko
• Aristelliger expectatus Cochran, 1933 – Hispaniolan desert gecko
• Aristelliger georgeensis (Bocourt, 1873) – St. George Island gecko
• Aristelliger hechti Schwartz and Crombie, 1975 – Caicos gecko
• Aristelliger lar Cope, 1861 – Hispaniolan giant gecko
• Aristelliger praesignis (Hallowell, 1856) – Jamaican croaking gecko
• Aristelliger reyesi Diaz and Hedges, 2009

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Aristelliger.

References

1. "Aristelliger ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstieleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/sphaerodactylidae.
2. Gamble T, Bauer AM, Greenbaum E, Jackman TR. 2008. "Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards". Journal of Biogeography 35 (1): 88–104.

Further reading

• Cope. 1862. "On the Genera Panoplus, Centropyx, Aristelliger and Sphærodactylus ". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 494-500. (Aristelliger, new genus, pp. 496-497).