Lepidodactylus
Genus of lizards
Lepidodactylus genus of geckos , commonly known as scaly-toed geckos and closely related to house geckos or dtellas .
Geographic range
Species in the genus Lepidodactylus are found from Southeast Asia to Indo-Australia and Oceania .
Species
There are 44 described species in this genus, which are considered valid.[ 2]
Species
Taxon author ‡
Common Name
Lepidodactylus aignanus Kraus , 2019
Lepidodactylus aureolineatus Taylor , 1915
golden scaly-toed gecko, yellow-lined smooth-scaled gecko
Lepidodactylus babuyanensis Eliades , R.M. Brown , Huang & Siler , 2021
Lepidodactylus bakingibut Eliades, Brown, Huang & Siler, 2021
Lepidodactylus balioburius Ota & Crombie , 1989
Batan scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus bisakol Eliades, Brown, Huang & Siler, 2021
Lepidodactylus buleli Ineich , 2008
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus christiani Taylor, 1917
Christian's scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus dialeukos Kraus, 2019
Lepidodactylus euaensis J.R.H. Gibbons & W.C. Brown , 1988
Eua scaly-toed gecko, Eua forest gecko
Lepidodactylus flaviocularis W.C. Brown, M. McCoy & Rodda , 1992
yellow-eyed scaly-toed gecko, yellow-eyed gecko
Lepidodactylus gardineri Boulenger , 1897
Rotuman forest Gecko
Lepidodactylus guppyi Boulenger, 1884
Solomon scaly-toed gecko, Guppy's gecko
Lepidodactylus herrei
Subspecies
Lepidodactylus herrei herrei Taylor, 1923
Lepidodactylus herrei medianus W.C. Brown & Alcala , 1978
Taylor, 1923
Negros scaly-toed gecko, white-lined smooth-scaled gecko
Lepidodactylus intermedius Darevsky , 1964
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus kwasnickae Kraus, 2019
Lepidodactylus labialis (W. Peters , 1867)
Mindanao false gecko, dark-spotted smooth-scaled gecko
Lepidodactylus listeri (Boulenger, 1889)
Christmas Island chained gecko, Lister's gecko
Lepidodactylus lombocensis Mertens , 1929
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus lugubris (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron , 1836)
mourning gecko, common smooth-scaled gecko
Lepidodactylus magnus W.C. Brown & F. Parker , 1977
mountain scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus manni Schmidt , 1923
Fiji scaly-toed gecko, Viti forest gecko
Lepidodactylus mitchelli Kraus, 2019
Lepidodactylus moestus (W. Peters , 1867)
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus mutahi W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1977
Bougainville's scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus nakahiwalay Eliades, Brown, Huang & Siler, 2021
Lepidodactylus novaeguineae W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1977
New Guinea scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus oligoporus Buden , 2007
Mortlock Islands scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus oorti (Kopstein , 1926)
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus orientalis W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1977
Oriental scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus pantai Stubbs , Karin , Arifin , Iskandar , Arida , Reilly , Bloch , Kusnadi & McGuire , 2017
beach scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus paurolepis Ota et al., 1995
Seventy Islands gecko
Lepidodactylus planicauda Stejneger , 1905
Mindanao scaly-toed gecko, small broad-tailed smooth-scaled gecko
Lepidodactylus pollostos Karkkainen , Richards , Kraus, Tjaturadi , Krey & P. Oliver , 2020
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus pulcher Boulenger, 1885
Wild scaly-toed gecko, Admiralty gecko
Lepidodactylus pumilus (Boulenger, 1885)
slender chained gecko
Lepidodactylus ranauensis Ota & Hikida , 1988
Sabah scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus sacrolineatus Kraus & Oliver, 2020
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus shebae (W.C. Brown & V.M. Tanner , 1949)
Guadalcanal scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus tepukapili Zug , Watling , T. Alefaio , S. Alefaio & Ludescher , 2003
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus vanuatuensis Ota, Fisher , Ineich, Case , Radtkey & Zug, 1998
(no common name)
Lepidodactylus woodfordi Boulenger, 1887
Woodford's scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus yami Ota, 1987
Lanyu scaly-toed gecko
Lepidodactylus zweifeli Kraus, 2019
‡ Nota bene taxon author (binomial authority ) in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lepidodactylus .
Eponyms
The specific name , browni , is in honor of American herpetologist Walter Creighton Brown .[ 3]
The specific name, christiani , is in honor of U.S. Army Lieutenant Ralph L. Christian.[ 3]
The specific name, gardineri , is in honor of British zoologist John Stanley Gardiner .[ 3]
The specific name, guppyi , is in honor of British naturalist Henry Brougham Guppy .[ 3]
The specific name, herrei , is in honor of American ichthyologist Albert William Herre .[ 3]
The specific name, manni , is in honor of American entomologist William Montana Mann .[ 3]
The specific name, oorti , is in honor of Dutch ornithologist Eduard Daniël van Oort .[ 3]
The specific name, woodfordi , is in honor of British naturalist Charles Morris Woodford .[ 3]
References
^ "Lepidodactylus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). www.itis.gov.
^ Genus Lepidodactylus The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ a b c d e f g h Beolens, Bo ; Watkins, Michael ; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . (Lepidodactylus browni , p. 41; L. christiani , p. 54; L. gardineri , p. 97; L. guppyi , p. 112; L. herrei , p. 122; L. manni , p. 167; L. oorti , p. 195; L. woodfordi , p. 289).
Further reading
Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Lepidodactylus , new genus, p. 98). (in Latin ).
