Goniurosaurus
| Goniurosaurus | |
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| Goniurosaurus kuroiwae in Ōgimi, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Sauria |
| Infraorder: | Gekkota |
| Family: | Eublepharidae |
| Genus: | Goniurosaurus Barbour, 1908 |
| Species | |
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17 recognized species, see article. | |
Goniurosaurus is a genus of geckos, containing 17 species. Members of this genus are found in China, Japan, and Vietnam. For this reason they are known commonly as Asian geckos. They belong to the family Eublepharidae.This genus of gecko mainly feeds of small insects.
Species
The following 17 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
They can be divided into three species groups.
luii group:
- Goniurosaurus araneus Grismer et al., 1999 – Vietnamese leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis Grismer et al., 2002
- Goniurosaurus catbaensis Ziegler, Truong, Schmitz, Stenke & Rösler, 2008
- Goniurosaurus huuliensis Orlov et al., 2008
- Goniurosaurus luii Grismer et al., 1999 – Chinese cave gecko
- Goniurosaurus yingdeensis Wang et al., 2010 – Yingde leopard gecko
lichtenfelderi group:
- Goniurosaurus hainanensis Barbour, 1908 – Hainan leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi (Mocquard, 1897) – Lichtenfelder's gecko
kuroiwae group:
- Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Namiye, 1912) – Okinawa ground gecko
- Goniurosaurus orientalis (Maki, 1931) – Tokashiki ground gecko
- Goniurosaurus splendens (Nakamura & Uéno, 1959) – Tokunoshima ground gecko
- Goniurosaurus toyamai Grismer et al., 1994 – Iheya ground gecko
- Goniurosaurus yamashinae (Okada, 1936) – Kume ground gecko
Recently described species (group ?):
- Goniurosaurus liboensis Wang et al., 2013 – Libo County, Guizhou Province, and Huanjiang County, Guangxi, China.
- Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum Yang & Chan, 2015
- Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis Yang & Chan, 2015
- Goniurosaurus zhelongi Wang et al., 2014
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus otherthan Goniurosaurus.
References
- ↑ "Goniurosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Barbour T. 1908. Some New Reptiles and Amphibians. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College 51 (12): 315-325. (Goniurosaurus, new genus, p. 316).
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