Reeves's Tokay gecko

Reeves's Tokay gecko
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Gekkota
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Gekko
Species:	G. reevesii
Binomial name
Gekko reevesii (Gray, 1831)
Synonyms [2]
Gecko [sic] reevesiiGray 1831 Gekko gecko Mertens, 1955 Gekko reevesii {{small Rösler et al., 2011}} Gekko (Gekko) reevesii Wood et al., 2019

Reeves's tokay gecko (Gekko reevesii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, reevesii, is in honor of English naturalist John Reeves. ^[3]

Geographic range

G. reevesii is indigenous to China and northwestern Vietnam. ^[2]

References

1. Nguyen, T.Q.; Cai, B.; Yang, J. (2021). "Gekko reevesii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T104717831A104718941. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T104717831A104718941.en . Retrieved 7 April 2022.
2. Gekko reevesii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Reeves", p. 218).

Further reading

• Gray JE (1831). "A Synopsis of the Species of the Class Reptilia". In: Griffith E, Pidgeon E (1831). The Animal Kingdom arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c., with additional Descriptions of all the Species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, Volume the Ninth. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co. 481 pp. + supplement, 110 pp. (Gecko reevesii, new species, p. 48 of supplement).
• Mertens R (1955). "Über eine eigenartige Rasse des Tokehs (Gekko gecko) aus Ost-Pakistan ". Senckenbergiana Biologica36: 21–24. (Gekko reevesii considered a synonym of Gekko gecko). (in German).
• Rösler H, Bauer AM, Heinicke MP, Greenbaum E, Jackman T, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T (2011). "Phylogeny, taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 with the revalidation of G. reevesii Gray, 1831 (Sauria: Gekkonidae)". Zootaxa2989: 1–50. (Gekko reevesii revalidated at specific rank).