Phyllodactylidae

Phyllodactylidae
Leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus xanti)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	Gekkonomorpha
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Superfamily:	Gekkonoidea
Family:	Phyllodactylidae Gamble et al., 2008
Genera
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The Phyllodactylidae are a family of geckos (Gekkota) consisting of 163 species in 10 genera, ^[1] distributed throughout the New World, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The family was first delineated based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2008, and all members possess a unique single codon deletion in the phosducin (PDC) gene. ^[2] The phyllodactylid genus Bogertia has been recently synonymized with Phyllopezus . ^[3] The name of the family comes from the leaf shaped fingers.

Genera

These genera are considered members of the Phyllodactylidae: ^[4]

List of genera
Genus	Image	Type species	Taxon author	Common name	Species
Asaccus	A. elisae	A. elisae (F. Werner, 1895)	Dixon & S. Anderson, 1973	Southwest Asian leaf-toed geckos	19
Garthia	G. gaudichaudii	G. gaudichaudii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836)	Donoso-Barros & Vanzolini, 1965	Chilean marked geckos	2
Gymnodactylus	G. geckoides	G. geckoides Spix, 1825	Spix, 1825	Naked-toed geckos	5
Haemodracon	H. riebeckii	H. riebeckii (W. Peters, 1882)	Bauer, Good & Branch, 1997		2
Homonota	H. septentrionalis	H. horrida (Burmeister, 1861)	Gray, 1845	Marked geckos	14
Phyllodactylus	P. lanei	P. pulcher Gray, 1828	Gray, 1828	American leaf-toed geckos	65
Phyllopezus	P. pollicaris	P. pollicaris (Spix, 1825)	W. Peters, 1877		8
Ptyodactylus	P. guttatus	P. hasselquistii (Donndorff, 1798)	Goldfuss, 1820	Fan-fingered geckos	12
Tarentola	T. mauritanica	T. mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758)	Gray, 1825	Wall geckos	33
Thecadactylus	T. solimoensis	T. rapicauda (Houttuyn, 1782)	Goldfuss, 1820	Turnip-tailed geckos	3

References

1. Reptile Database
2. Gamble, T.; Bauer, A.M.; Greenbaum, E.; Jackman, T.R. (July 2008). "Out of the blue: A novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata)". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (4): 355–366. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00330.x . S2CID   83706826.
3. Gamble, T.; Colli, G.R.; Rodrigues, M.T.; Werneck, F.P.; Simons, A.M. (2012). "Phylogeny and cryptic diversity in geckos (Phyllopezus; Phyllodactylidae; Gekkota) from South America's open biomes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62 (3): 943–953. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.033 . PMID   22182991.
4. Gamble, T.; Bauer, A.M.; Colli, G.R.; Greenbaum, E.; Jackman, T.R.; Vitt, L.J.; Simons, A.M. (February 2011). "Coming to America: Multiple Origins of New World Geckos". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24 (2): 231–244. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02184.x. PMC   3075428 . PMID   21126276.