Leaf finger geckos
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Wall gecko ( Tarentola mauritanica ) |
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| Gamble , Bauer , Greenbaum , Jackman , 2008 |
The leaf finger geckos (Phyllodactylidae) are a family of gecko-like (Gekkota). They come in Southern Europe, in Africa , in southern North America , in Central and South America , especially south of the Amazon , in front and in Southeast Asia before. The family was only established in 2008 on the basis of phylogenetic studies with the help of DNA sequencing of the protein-coding DNA of 44 gecko species and is the sister group of the real geckos (Gekkonidae). It includes all gecko species that share a younger ancestor with Phyllodactylus pulcher than with the tokeh ( Gekko gecko ), a total of 134 species. This also includes the European species of wall gecko ( Tarentola mauritanica ) and European leaf finger ( Phyllodactylus europaeus ).
The original classification of the gecko-like was mainly based on the structure of the sticky toes, but ignored the fact that different toe structures had developed independently of each other several times, depending on the animals' environment.
Genera
- Asaccus Dixon & Anderson , 1973
- Haemodracon Bauer , Good & Branch , 1997
- Homonota Gray , 1845
- Phyllodactylus Gray , 1828
- Phyllopezus Peters , 1877
- Fan Finger ( Ptyodactylus Oken , 1817 )
- Tarentola Gray , 1825
- Thecadactylus Goldfuss , 1820
The family who first described the family suspect that three further South American genera, which were not included in their investigation, must be placed in the new family:
- Bogertia Loveridge , 1941 (The only species Bogertia lutzae was transferred to the genus Phyllopezus )
- Garthia Donoso-Barros & Vanzolini , 1965
- Gymnodactylus Spix , 1825
literature
- Tony Gamble, Aaron M. Bauer, Eli Greenbaum, Todd R. Jackman: Out of the blue: a novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata). In: Zoologica Scripta. Volume 37, No. 4, 2008, pp. 355-366, doi: 10.1111 / j.1463-6409.2008.00330.x .
- University of Minnesota. New Family Of Gecko Discovered. Science Daily, May 23, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
