Gehyra

Gehyra is a genus of geckos in the family Gekkonidae. They are known as web-toed geckos or dtellas, and most species within the genus bear close resemblance to geckos from the genus Hemidactylus.

Gehyra
Gehyra vorax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Subfamily:	Gekkoninae
Genus:	Gehyra Gray, 1834
Species
67 recognized species, see text.

Gehyra dubia, dubious dtella

Gehyra mutilata, stump-tailed gecko

Geographic range

Gehyra species have a wide geographic range, covering most of the Oceania and Melanesian Islands as far north as the Ryukyu Islands and Thailand.

Description

Dtellas are moderately sized geckos that resembles house geckos. Gehyra species have toepads and powerful claws. Like some other geckos they also have a tendency to drop strips of skin if handled carelessly. Similar to house geckos, dtellas are able to communicate with clicks or chirps, although their chirp is often quieter than that of house geckos.

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.[1][2]

• Gehyra angusticaudata (Taylor, 1963) – narrow-tailed four-clawed gecko
• Gehyra arnhemica Oliver, Prasetya, Tedeschi, Fenker, Ellis, Doughty, & Moritz, 2020 – East Arnhem land gehyra
• Gehyra australis (Gray, 1845) – top-end dtella
• Gehyra baliola (A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – short-tailed dtella
• Gehyra barea Kopstein, 1926 – Banda Island dtella
• Gehyra borroloola King, 1984 – Borroloola dtella
• Gehyra brevipalmata (W. Peters, 1874) – Palau Island dtella
• Gehyra calcitectus Oliver, Prasetya, Tedeschi, Fenker, Ellis, Doughty, & Moritz, 2020 – Relictual Karst gehyra
• Gehyra capensis Kealley, Doughty, Pepper, Keogh, Hillyer, & Huey, 2018 – north west Cape gehyra
• Gehyra catenata Low, 1979 – chain-backed dtella
• Gehyra chimera Oliver, Prasetya, Tedeschi, Fenker, Ellis, Doughty, & Moritz, 2020 – Western Kimberley tree gehyra
• Gehyra crypta Kealley, Doughty, Pepper, Keogh, Hillyer, & Huey, 2018 – western cryptic gehyra
• Gehyra dubia (Macleay, 1877) – dubious dtella
• Gehyra einasleighensis Bourke, Pratt, Vanderduys & Moritz, 2017[3] – Einasleigh rock dtella
• Gehyra electrum Zozaya, Fenker, & MacDonald, 2019 – amber rock dtella
• Gehyra fehlmanni (Taylor, 1962) – Fehlmann's dtella
• Gehyra fenestrula Doughty, Bauer, Pepper, & Keogh, 2018 – Hamersley Range spotted gehyra
• Gehyra finipunctata Doughty, Bauer, Pepper, Keogh, & Ellis, 2018 – small-spotted midwest rock gehyra
• Gehyra gemina Oliver, Prasetya, Tedeschi, Fenker, Ellis, Doughty, & Moritz, 2020 – plain tree gehyra
• Gehyra georgpotthasti Flecks et al., 2012
• Gehyra girloorloo Oliver, Bourke, Pratt, Doughty, & Moritz, 2016 – Kimberley karst gecko
• Gehyra granulum Doughty, Palmer, Bourke, Tedeschi, Oliver, & Moritz, 2018 – Kimberley granular-toed gecko
• Gehyra incognita Kealley, Doughty, Pepper, Keogh, Hillyer, & Huey, 2018 – Northern Pilbara cryptic gehyra
• Gehyra insulensis Girard, 1858 – Pacific stump-toed gecko
• Gehyra interstitialis Oudemans, 1894 – Oudemans's dtella
• Gehyra ipsa Horner, 2005 – Bungle Bungle Ranges gehyra
• Gehyra kimberleyi Börner & Schüttler, 1982 – Kimberley dtella
• Gehyra koira Horner, 2005 – banded rock dtella
• Gehyra lacerata (Taylor, 1962) – lacerated dtella
• Gehyra lapistola Oliver, Prasetya, Tedeschi, Fenker, Ellis, Doughty, & Moritz, 2020 – Litchfield Rock gehyra
• Gehyra lauta Oliver, Prasetya, Tedeschi, Fenker, Ellis, Doughty, & Moritz, 2020 – Gulf tree gehyra
• Gehyra lazelli (Wells & Wellington, 1985)
• Gehyra leopoldi Brongersma, 1930 – Leopold dtella
• Gehyra macra Doughty, Bauer, Pepper, & Keogh, 2018 – large Pilbara rock gehyra
• Gehyra marginata Boulenger, 1887 – Moluccan gecko
• Gehyra media Doughty, Bauer, Pepper, & Keogh, 2018 – medium Pilbara spotted rock gehyra
• Gehyra membranacruralis King & Horner, 1989 – Port Moresby dtella
• Gehyra micra Doughty, Bauer, Pepper, & Keogh, 2018 – small Pilbara spotted rock gehyra
• Gehyra minuta King, 1982 – dwarf dtella
• Gehyra montium Storr, 1982 – Centralian dtella
• Gehyra moritzi Hutchinson et al., 2014
• Gehyra multiporosa Doughty et al., 2012
• Gehyra mutilata (Wiegmann, 1834) – stump-tailed gecko
• Gehyra nana Storr, 1978 – northern spotted rock dtella
• Gehyra occidentalis King, 1984 – Kimberley Plateau dtella
• Gehyra oceanica (Lesson, 1830) – Pacific dtella
• Gehyra ocellata Kealley, Doughty, Pepper, Keogh, Hillyer, & Huey, 2018 – Pilbara Island gehyra
• Gehyra pamela King, 1982 – Arnhemland Watercourse dtella
• Gehyra papuana A. Meyer, 1874 – Papua dtella
• Gehyra paranana Bourke, Doughty, Tedeschi, Oliver, & Moritz, 2018 – Litchfield spotted gecko
• Gehyra peninsularis Doughty, Bauer, Pepper, & Keogh, 2018 – Burrup Peninsula rock gehyra
• Gehyra pilbara Mitchell, 1965 – Pilbara dtella
• Gehyra pluraporosa Bourke, Doughty, Tedeschi, Oliver, Myers, & Moritz, 2018 – northern Kimberley gecko
• Gehyra polka Doughty, Bauer, Pepper, & Keogh, 2018 – large-spotted midwest rock gehyra
• Gehyra pseudopunctata Bourke, Doughty, Tedeschi, Oliver, & Moritz, 2018 – southern Kimberley spotted gecko
• Gehyra pulingka Hutchinson et al., 2014
• Gehyra punctata (Fry, 1914) – spotted dtella
• Gehyra purpurascens Storr, 1982 – purplish dtella
• Gehyra robusta King, 1984 – robust dtella
• Gehyra rohan Oliver, Clegg, Fisher, Richards, Taylor, & Jocque, 2016
• Gehyra serraticauda Skipwith & P. Oliver, 2014
• Gehyra spheniscus Doughty et al., 2012 – small wedge-toed gecko
• Gehyra unguiculata Kealley, Doughty, Pepper, Keogh, Hillyer, & Huey, 2018 – crescent-marked Pilbara gehyra
• Gehyra variegata (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836) – tree dtella
• Gehyra versicolor Hutchinson et al., 2014
• Gehyra vorax Girard, 1858 – voracious dtella
• Gehyra xenopus Storr, 1978– crocodile-faced dtella

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

References

1. Gehyra sp. in the Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. "Gehyra ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Gekkota/Gekkonidae.
3. Bourke, Gayleen; Pratt, Renae C.; Vanderduys, Eric; Moritz, Craig (2017). "Systematics of a small Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland: description of a new range restricted species". Zootaxa. 4231 (1): 85–99. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 28187551.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus Gehyra, p. 147).
• Gray JE. 1834. "Characters of Two New Genera of Reptiles (Geoemyda and Gehyra)". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1834: 99-100. (Gehyra, new genus, p. 100). (in Latin and English).

• Smith MA. 1935. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (Genus Gehyra, p. 104, Figure 30).