Diplodactylidae
The Diplodactylidae are a family in the suborder Gekkota (geckos), with about 137 species in 25 genera.[1] These geckos occur in Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia.[2][3] Three diplodactylid genera (Oedura, Rhacodactylus, and Hoplodactylus) have recently been split into multiple new genera [4][5][6]
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| Amalosia lesueurii | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Superfamily: | Pygopodoidea |
| Family: | Diplodactylidae Underwood, 1954 |
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In previous classifications, the family Diplodactylidae is equivalent to the subfamily Diplodactylinae.[7]
Genera
- Amalosia (four species)
- Bavayia (12 species)
- Correlophus (three species)
- Crenadactylus (7 species)
- Dactylocnemis (one species)
- Dierogekko (nine species)
- Diplodactylus (26 species)
- Eurydactylodes (four species)
- Hesperoedura (one species)
- Hoplodactylus (two species)
- Lucasium (11 species)
- Mniarogekko (two species)
- Mokopirirakau (four species)
- Naultinus (eight species)
- Nebulifera (one species)
- Oedodera (one species)
- Oedura (19 species)
- Paniegekko (one species)
- Pseudothecadactylus (three species)
- Rhacodactylus (four species)
- Rhynchoedura (six species)
- Strophurus (18 species)
- Toropuku (two species)
- Tukutuku (one species)
- Woodworthia (three species)
References
- "Diplodactylidae". The Reptile Database. http://www.reptile-database.org.
- Han D, Zhou K, Bauer AM. 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, Greenbaum E, Jackman TR, Russell AP, Bauer AM. 2012. Repeated origin and loss of adhesive toepads in geckos. PLoS ONE 7:e39429
- Nielson SV, Bauer AM, Jackman TR, Hitchmough RA, Daughtry CH. 2011. New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): Cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 1-22.
- Oliver PM, Bauer AM, Greenbaum E, Jackman TR, Hobbie T. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics of the arboreal Australian gecko genus Oedura Gray 1842 (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae): Another plesiomorphic grade? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 255-264.
- Bauer AM, Jackman TR, Sadlier RA, Whitaker AH. 2012. Revision of the giant geckos of New Caledonia (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae: Rhacodactylus). Zootaxa 3404: 1-52.
- Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR. 1978. Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. ("Subfamily Diplodactylinae", p. 284).
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Further reading
- Underwood G. 1954. On the classification and evolution of geckos. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 124 (3): 469–492. (Diplodactylidae, new family).
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