Goniurosaurus
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| Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae) in Ōgimi, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Eublepharidae |
| Genus: | Goniurosaurus Barbour, 1908 |
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18 recognized species, see article. | |
Goniurosaurus is a genus of geckos, containing 17 species. Members are known by various names including ground geckos, tiger geckos, leopard geckos, and cave geckos Members of this genus are found in China, Japan, and Vietnam. For this reason they are known commonly as Asian geckos. They belong to the family Eublepharidae.
Diet
Geckos of the genus Goniurosaurus mainly feed on small insects.
Species
The following 19 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
They can be divided into 4 species groups.
luii group:
- Goniurosaurus araneus Grismer et al., 1999 (Vietnamese leopard gecko)
- Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis Grismer et al., 2002
- Goniurosaurus catbaensis Ziegler, Truong, Schmitz, Stenke & Rösler, 2008 (Cat Ba leopard gecko)
- Goniurosaurus huuliensis Orlov et al., 2008
- Goniurosaurus luii Grismer et al., 1999
- Goniurosaurus liboensis Wang et al., 2013
- Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum Yang & Chan, 2015 (Kadoories's cave gecko)
- Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis Yang & Chan, 2015 (Guangxi cave gecko)
lichtenfelderi group:
- Goniurosaurus hainanensis Barbour, 1908
- Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi (Mocquard, 1897) (Lichtenfelder's gecko)
- Goniurosaurus zhoui Zhou, Wang, Chen, & Liang, 2018 (Zhou's leopard gecko)
kuroiwae group:
- Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Namiye, 1912) (Kuroiwa's ground gecko)
- Goniurosaurus orientalis (Maki, 1931) (Spotted ground gecko)
- Goniurosaurus sengokui (Honda & Ota, 2017) (Sengoku's gecko)
- Goniurosaurus splendens (Nakamura & Uéno, 1959) (Banded ground gecko)
- Goniurosaurus toyamai Grismer et al., 1994 (Iheyajima leopard gecko)
- Goniurosaurus yamashinae (Okada, 1936) (Yamashina's ground gecko)
yingdeensis group:
- Goniurosaurus yingdeensis Wang et al., 2010 (Yingde leopard gecko)
- Goniurosaurus zhelongi Wang et al., 2014 (Zhe-long's leopard gecko)
References
- ^ "Goniurosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Barbour T (1908). "Some New Reptiles and Amphibians". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College 51 (12): 315–325. (Goniurosaurus, new genus, p. 316).
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