Goniurosaurus
Goniurosaurus is a genus of geckos, containing 24 species. Members are known by various names including ground geckos, tiger geckos, leopard geckos, and cave geckos 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.
| Goniurosaurus | |
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| Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae) in Ōgimi, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Eublepharidae |
| Genus: | Goniurosaurus Barbour, 1908 |
| Species | |
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24 recognized species, see article. | |
Diet
Geckos of the genus Goniurosaurus mainly feed on small insects.
Species
The following 24 species are recognized as being valid.[1][2]
They can be divided into 4 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 (Cat Ba leopard gecko)
- Goniurosaurus gezhi Zhu, He & Li, 2020[3]
- Goniurosaurus huuliensis Orlov et al., 2008
- Goniurosaurus luii Grismer et al., 1999
- Goniurosaurus liboensis Wang et al., 2013
- Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum Yang & Chan, 2015 (Kadoories's cave gecko)
- Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis Yang & Chan, 2015 (Guangxi cave gecko)
lichtenfelderi group:
- Goniurosaurus hainanensis Barbour, 1908
- Goniurosaurus kwanghua Zhu & He, 2020
- Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi (Mocquard, 1897) (Lichtenfelder's gecko)
- Goniurosaurus sinensis Zhou, Peng, Hou, & Yuan, 2019
- Goniurosaurus zhoui Zhou, Wang, Chen, & Liang, 2018 (Zhou's leopard gecko)
kuroiwae group:
- Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Namiye, 1912) (Kuroiwa's ground gecko)
- Goniurosaurus orientalis (Maki, 1931) (Spotted ground gecko)
- Goniurosaurus sengokui (Honda & Ota, 2017) (Sengoku's gecko)
- Goniurosaurus splendens (Nakamura & Uéno, 1959) (Banded ground gecko)
- Goniurosaurus toyamai Grismer et al., 1994 (Iheyajima leopard gecko)
- Goniurosaurus yamashinae (Okada, 1936) (Yamashina's ground gecko)
yingdeensis group:
- Goniurosaurus yingdeensis Wang et al., 2010 (Yingde leopard gecko)
- Goniurosaurus varius Qi et al., 2020
- Goniurosaurus zhelongi Wang et al., 2014 (Zhe-long's leopard gecko)
unassigned
- Goniurosaurus gollum Qi et al., 2020 (Gollum leopard gecko)
References
- "Goniurosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- Qi, Shuo; Grismer, L. Lee; Lyu, Zhi-Tong; Zhang, Liang; Li, Pi-Peng; Wang, Ying-Yong (2020-11-05). "A definition of the Goniurosaurus yingdeensis group (Squamata, Eublepharidae) with the description of a new species". ZooKeys. 986: 127–155. doi:10.3897/zookeys.986.47989. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7661482. PMID 33223883.
- Zhu, Xiao-Yu; Chen, Guang-Yu; Román-Palacios, Cristian; Li, Zheng; He, Zhu-Qing (2020-09-15). "Goniurosaurus gezhi sp. nov., a new gecko species from Guangxi, China (Squamata: Eublepharidae)". Zootaxa. 4852 (2): 211–222. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4852.2.6. ISSN 1175-5334.
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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