Double finger geckos

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Double finger geckos
Diplodactylus vittatus

Diplodactylus vittatus

Systematics
without rank: Amniotes (Amniota)
without rank: Sauropsida
Superordinate : Scale lizards (Lepidosauria)
Order : Scale reptiles (Squamata)
without rank: Geckos (gekkota)
Family : Double finger geckos
Scientific name
Diplodactylidae
Underwood , 1954

The double- fingered geckos (Diplodactylidae) are a gecko- like family living in Australia , New Zealand, and New Caledonia .

features

Like the real geckos (Gekkonidae), they lack eyelids. There are ground-dwelling and tree-dwelling species which, depending on their way of life, have either well-developed or missing adhesive lamellae on their feet. You are able to vote. Two genera endemic to New Zealand, Naultinus and Hoplodactylus as well as Rhacodactylus trachyrhynchus , which occurs in New Caledonia, are ovoviviparous , the others lay two soft-shelled eggs per clutch.

Systematics

Double-fingered geckos used to belong to the Gekkonidae as a subfamily . Today, since they are considered a sister group of the Australian and New Guinean legless pinnipeds (Pygopodidae), they are viewed as a separate family. Depending on the author, 11 to 25 genera are counted among the double-fingered geckos. Part of the genera that used to belong to the subfamily Diplodactylinae now forms another new family of geckos, the Carphodactylidae .

Amalosia lesueurii
New Caledonian crown Gecko ( Correlophus ciliatus )
Sarasin's gecko ( Correlophus sarasinorum )
Eurydactylodes vieillardi (adult male)
Hoplodactylus duvaucelii
Lucasium damaeum
Lucasium occultum
Lichen Gecko ( Mniarogekko chahoua )
Auckland green gecko ( Naultinus elegans )
Northern Green Gecko ( Naultinus grayii )
Rough Green Gecko ( Naultinus rudis )
Pseudothecadactylus lindneri
Mute-headed gecko ( Rhacodactylus auriculatus )
New Caledonian Giant Gecko ( Rhacodactylus leachianus )
Tukutuku rakiurae
Woodworthia maculatus

Genera and species

There are currently 130 species divided into 25 genera:

As of March 25, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diplodactylidae in The Reptile Database ; accessed on March 24, 2015.

literature

  • Demin Han, Kaiya Zhou, Aaron M. Bauer: Phylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards inferred from C-mos nuclear DNA sequences and a new classification of the Gekkota. In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 83, No. 3, 2004, pp. 353-368, doi : 10.1111 / j.1095-8312.2004.00393.x , digitized version (PDF; 189.06 kB) ( Memento from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Arnold G. Kluge: Cladistic Relationships in the Gekkonoidea (Squamata, Sauria) (= University of Michigan. Museum of Zoology. Miscellaneous Publications. No. 173, ISSN  0076-8405 ). University of Michigan - Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor MI 1987, digital copy (PDF; 1.49 MB) .
  • Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt: Lizards. Windows to the Evolution of Diversity (= Organisms and Environments. Volume 5). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2003, ISBN 0-520-23401-4 .
  • Ted M. Townsend, Allan Larson, Edward Louis, J. Robert Macey: Molecular Phylogenetics of Squamata: The Position of Snakes, Amphisbaenians, and Dibamids, and the Root of the Squamate Tree. In: Systematic Biology. Volume 3, No. 5, 2004, pp. 735-757, doi : 10.1080 / 10635150490522340 , PMID 15545252 .

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