Lepidoblepharis

Lepidoblepharis
Lepidoblepharis miyatai
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Family:	Sphaerodactylidae
Genus:	Lepidoblepharis Peracca, 1897 [1]
Diversity
21 species (see text)

Lepidoblepharis is a genus of dwarf geckos, commonly known as scaly-eyed geckos, in the family Sphaerodactylidae. Species of the genus Lepidoblepharis are native to Central America and South America. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

Genus Lepidoblepharis contains the following species: ^{[1] [2]}

• Lepidoblepharis buchwaldi F. Werner, 1910
• Lepidoblepharis colombianus Mechler, 1968
• Lepidoblepharis conolepis Ávila-Pires, 2001
• Lepidoblepharis duolepis Ayala & Castro, 1983
• Lepidoblepharis emberawoundule Batista, Ponce, Vesely, Mebert, Hertz, G. Köhler, Carrizo & Lotzkat, 2015
• Lepidoblepharis festae Peracca, 1897 – brown dwarf gecko
• Lepidoblepharis grandis Miyata, 1985
• Lepidoblepharis heyerorum Vanzolini, 1978
• Lepidoblepharis hoogmoedi Ávila-Pires, 1995 – Hoogmoed's scaly-eyed gecko, ^[3] spotted dwarf gecko
• Lepidoblepharis intermedius Boulenger, 1914
• Lepidoblepharis microlepis (Noble, 1923)
• Lepidoblepharis miyatai Lamar, 1985
• Lepidoblepharis montecanoensis Markezich & Taphorn, 1994 – Paraguanan ground gekko
• Lepidoblepharis nukak Calderón-Espinosa & Medina-Rangel, 2016
• Lepidoblepharis peraccae Boulenger, 1908
• Lepidoblepharis rufigularis Batista, Ponce, Vesely, Mebert, Hertz, G. Köhler, Carrizo & Lotzkat, 2015
• Lepidoblepharis ruthveni Parker, 1926
• Lepidoblepharis sanctaemartae Ruthven, 1916
• Lepidoblepharis victormartinezi Batista, Ponce, Vesely, Mebert, Hertz, G. Köhler, Carrizo & Lotzkat, 2015
• Lepidoblepharis williamsi Ayala & Serna, 1986
• Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma (Noble, 1916)

References

1. "Lepidoblepharis Peracca, 1897". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
2. Lepidoblepharis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 4 October 2014.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lepidoblepharis hoogmoedi, p. 125; L. williamsi, p. 286).

Further reading

• Peracca MG (1897). "Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. IV. Rettili ". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R[egia]. Università di Torino12 (300): 1-20. (Lepidoblepharis, new genus, pp. 1–2). (in Italian).