Gekkonidae
Gekkonidae | |
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Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Infraorder: | Gekkota |
Family: | Gekkonidae Gray, 1825 |
Genera | |
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Gekkonidae is the largest family of geckos, containing over 950 described species in 61 genera.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Many "typical" geckos are members of Gekkonidae, including house geckos (Hemidactylus), tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), and day geckos (Phelsuma). Gekkonid geckos occur globally and are particularly species-rich in tropical areas.
Contents
1 Evolution
2 Genera
3 Phylogeny
4 References
Evolution
They evolved probably in the Lower Cretaceous and some 100 million years ago they were already well adapted for scansorial lifestyle.[7]
Genera
Gekkonidae contains the following genera:
- Afroedura
- Afrogecko
- Agamura
- Ailuronyx
- Alsophylax
- Altiphylax
- Blaesodactylus
- Bunopus
- Calodactylodes
- Chondrodactylus
- Christinus
- Cnemaspis
- Colopus
- Crossobamon
- Cryptactites
- Cyrtodactylus
- Cyrtopodion
- Dixonius
- Ebenavia
- Elasmodactylus
- Geckolepis
- Gehyra
- Gekko
- Goggia
- Hemidactylus
- Hemiphyllodactylus
- Heteronotia
- Homopholis
- Kolekanos
- Lepidodactylus
- Luperosaurus
- Lygodactylus
- Matoatoa
- Mediodactylus
- Microgecko
- Nactus
- Narudasia
- Pachydactylus
- Paragehyra
- Paroedura
- Parsigecko
- Perochirus
- Phelsuma
- Pseudoceramodactylus
- Pseudogekko
- Ptenopus
- Ptychozoon
- Ramigekko
- Rhinogekko
- Rhoptropella
- Rhoptropus
- Stenodactylus
- Tenuidactylus
- Trachydactylus
- Tropiocolotes
- Urocotyledon
- Uroplatus
Phylogeny
Pyron, et al. (2013)[8] presents the following classification of Gekkonidae genera, based on molecular phylogenetics.
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References
^ The Reptile Database http://www.reptile-database.org
^ Han, D., K. Zhou, & A. M. Bauer. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards inferred from c-mos nuclear DNA sequences and a new classification of the Gekkota. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 353– 368.
^ Gamble, T., A. M. Bauer, E. Greenbaum, & T.R. Jackman. 2008. Out of the blue: A novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata). Zoologica Scripta 37: 355-366.
^ Gamble, T., A. M. Bauer, E. Greenbaum, & T.R. Jackman. 2008. Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards. Journal of Biogeography 35: 88-104
^ Gamble, T., A. M. Bauer, G. R. Colli, E. Greenbaum, and T.R. Jackman, L. J. Vitt and A. M. Simons. 2011. Coming to America: Multiple Origins of New World Geckos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:231-244.
^ Gamble, T., E. Greenbaum, T.R. Jackman, A.P. Russell, and A.M. Bauer. 2012. Repeated origin and loss of adhesive toepads in geckos. PLoS ONE 7:e39429
^ Gabriela Fontanarrosa, Juan D. Daza & Virginia Abdala (2017). Cretaceous fossil gecko hand reveals a strikingly modern scansorial morphology: Qualitative and biometric analysis of an amber-preserved lizard hand. Cretaceous Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.003
^ Pyron, R Alexander, Frank T Burbrink and John J Wiens. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013 13:93. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93
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