Sphaerodactylidae: Difference between revisions

{{short description|Family of geckos}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image_caption = [[Persian wonder gecko]] <br>(''Teratoscincus keyserlingii'' )

| taxon = Sphaerodactylidae

| authority = [[:fr:Garth Underwood|Underwood]], 1954

| subdivision = 12, see text.

The '''Sphaerodactylidae''' are a [[Family (biology)|family]] of [[gecko]]s ([[Gekkota]]) distributed in [[North America]], [[Central America]], [[South America]], and the [[Caribbean]], as well as in [[Southern Europe]], [[North Africa]], the [[Middle East]], and into [[Central Asia]]. The family contains 12 living [[genera]] and over 200 living [[species]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gamble |first1=T. |last2=Daza |first2=J.D.D. |last3=Colli |first3=G.R. |last4=Vitt |first4=L.J. |last5=Bauer |first5=A.M. |date=2011 |title=A new genus of miniaturized and pug-nosed gecko from South America |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=163 |issue=4 |pages=1244–1266 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00741.x |pmid=22125341 |pmc=3223738}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Gamble|first=Tony|author2=Bauer, Aaron M. |author3=Greenbaum, Eli |author4= Jackman, Todd R. |title=Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards|journal=Journal of Biogeography|date=21 August 2007|volume=35 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01770.x|pages=070821084123003––|s2cid=29974883|url=https://epublications.marquette.edu/bio_fac/756}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gamble |first1=T. |last2=Bauer |first2=A.M. |last3=Colli |first3=G.R. |last4=Greenbaum |first4=E. |last5=Jackman | first5=T.R. |last6=Vitt |first6=L.J. |last7=Simons |first7=A.M. |date=February 2011 |title=Coming to America: Multiple Origins of New World Geckos |journal=Journal of Evolutionary Biology |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=231–244 |doi=10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02184.x |pmid=21126276 |pmc=3075428}}</ref> The family name comes from the ball shape of their finger joints.

The following genera are recognized as valid:<ref>[http://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Gekkota/sphaerodactylidae "Sphaerodactylidae". ''Dahms Tierleben'']</ref>

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|colspan=6, style="text-align: center"|<strong>List of genera</strong>

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! Genus

! Image

! Type species

! Taxon author

! Common name

! Species

|-

| ''[[Aristelliger]]''

| align=center | [[File:Aristelliger georgeensis 35218379.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Aristelliger georgeensis|A. georgeensis]]''

| align=center | ''[[Aristelliger lar|A. lar]]'' {{small|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1862}}

| align=center | Cope, 1862

| align=center | Croaking geckos and Caribbean geckos

| align=center | 9

|-

| ''[[Chatogekko]]''

| align=center | [[File:Chatogekko amazonicus.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Chatogekko amazonicus|C. amazonicus]]''

| align=center | ''[[Chatogekko amazonicus|C. amazonicus]]'' {{small|([[Lars Gabriel Andersson|Andersson]], 1918)}}

| align=center | [[Tony Gamble|Gamble]], [[Juan D. Daza|Daza]], [[Guarino Rinaldi Colli|Colli]], [[Laurie Joseph Vitt|Vitt]] & [[:fr:Aaron Matthew Bauer|Bauer]], 2011

| align=center | Brazilian pygmy gecko

| align=center | 1

|-

| ''[[Coleodactylus]]''

| align=center | [[File:Coleodactylus_natalensis.JPG|140px]]<br/>''[[Coleodactylus natalensis|C. natalensis]]''

| align=center | ''[[Coleodactylus meridionalis|C. meridionalis]]'' {{small|([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1888)}}

| align=center | [[Hampton Wildman Parker|Parker]], 1926

| align=center |

| align=center | 5

|-

| ''[[Euleptes]]''

| align=center | [[File:Benny Trapp Europäischer Blattfinger.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Euleptes europaea|E. europaea]]''

| align=center | ''[[Euleptes europaea|E. europaea]]'' {{small|([[Giuseppe Gené|Gené]], 1839)}}

| align=center | [[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843

| align=center | European leaf-toed gecko

| align=center | 1

|-

| {{extinct}}''[[Geiseleptes]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Villa |first1=Andrea |last2=Wings |first2=Oliver |last3=Rabi |first3=Márton |date=2022 |editor-last=Angielczyk |editor-first=Kenneth |title=A new gecko (Squamata, Gekkota) from the Eocene of Geiseltal (Germany) implies long-term persistence of European Sphaerodactylidae |url=https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/2022/259562/pappal_a2022v8n3ae1434.pdf |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1434 |bibcode=2022PPal....8E1434V |s2cid=249358350 |issn=2056-2799}}</ref>

| align=center |

| align=center |{{extinct}}''[[Geiseleptes|G.delfinoi]]'' {{small| Villa, Wings & Rabi, 2022}}

| align=center | Villa, Wings & Rabi, 2022

| align=center |

| align=center | 1

|-

| ''[[Gonatodes]]''

| align=center | [[File:Variegated (Brilliant South American) gecko (Gonatodes ceciliae) male.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Gonatodes ceciliae|G. ceciliae]]''

| align=center | ''[[Gonatodes albogularis|G. albogularis]]'' {{small|([[André Marie Constant Duméril|Duméril]] & [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1836)}}

| align=center | Fitzinger, 1843

| align=center | Dwarf geckos

| align=center | 34

|-

| ''[[Lepidoblepharis]]''

| align=center | [[File:Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma|L. xanthostigma]]''

| align=center | ''[[Lepidoblepharis festae|L. festae]]'' {{small|[[Mario Giacinto Peracca|Peracca]], 1897}}

| align=center | Peracca, 1897

| align=center | Scaly-eyed geckos

| align=center | 21

|-

| ''[[Pristurus]]''

| align=center | [[File:Rock semaphore gecko (pristurus rupestris) (12801641984).jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Pristurus rupestris|P. rupestris]]''

| align=center | ''[[Pristurus flavipunctatus|P. flavipunctatus]]'' {{small|[[Eduard Rüppell|Rüppell]], 1835}}

| align=center | Rüppell, 1835

| align=center | Rock geckos

| align=center | 26

|-

| ''[[Pseudogonatodes]]''

| align=center | [[File:Pseudogonatodes guianensis 146939126.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Pseudogonatodes guianensis|P. guianensis]]''

| align=center | ''[[Pseudogonatodes furvus|P. furvus]]'' {{small|[[Alexander Grant Ruthven|Ruthven]], 1915}}

| align=center | Ruthven, 1915

| align=center | South American clawed geckos

| align=center | 7

|-

| ''[[Quedenfeldtia]]''

| align=center | [[File:Quedenfeldtia trachyblepharus (Male).JPG|140px]]<br/>''[[Quedenfeldtia trachyblepharus|Q. trachyblepharus]]''

| align=center | ''[[Quedenfeldtia trachyblepharus|Q. trachyblepharus]]'' {{small|([[Oskar Boettger|Boettger]], 1873)}}

| align=center | Boettger, 1883

| align=center | Atlas day geckos

| align=center | 2

|-

| ''[[Saurodactylus]]''

| align=center | [[File:Saurodactylus brosseti 12885422.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Saurodactylus brosseti|S. brosseti]]''

| align=center | ''[[Saurodactylus mauritanicus|S. mauritanicus]]'' {{small|(Duméril & Bibron, 1836)}}

| align=center | Fitzinger, 1843

| align=center | Lizard-fingered geckos

| align=center | 7

|-

| ''[[Sphaerodactylus]]''

| align=center | [[File:Sphaerodactylus fantasticus fantasticus (51113243252).jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Sphaerodactylus fantasticus|S. fantasticus]]''

| align=center | ''[[Sphaerodactylus sputator|S. sputator]]'' {{small|([[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]], 1784)}}

| align=center | [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1830

| align=center | Sphaeros and least geckos

| align=center | 108

|-

| ''[[Teratoscincus]]''

| align=center | [[File:Teratoscincus bedriagai.jpg|140px]]<br/>''[[Teratoscincus bedriagai|T. bedriagai]]''

| align=center | ''[[Teratoscincus keyserlingii|T. keyserlingii]]'' {{small|[[Alexander Strauch (naturalist)|Strauch]], 1863}}

| align=center | Strauch, 1863

| align=center | Wonder geckos

| align=center | 9

|}

{{Reflist}}

*{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1954.tb07789.x|title=On the classification and evolution of geckos|journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|volume=124|issue=3|pages=469–492|year=2010|last1=Underwood|first1=Garth}}

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