Lepidodactylus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Gekkota
Infraordo: Gekkomorpha
Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Lepidodactylus
Species (40): L. aignanus – L. aureolineatus – L. balioburius – L. browni – L. buleli – L. christiani – L. dialeukos – L. euaensis – L. flaviocularis – L. gardineri – L. guppyi – L. herrei – L. intermedius – L. kwasnickae – L. labialis – L. listeri – L. lombocensis – L. lugubris – L. magnus – L. manni – L. mitchelli – L. moestus – L. mutahi – L. novaeguineae – L. oligoporus – L. oortii – L. orientalis – L. pantai – L. paurolepis – L. planicaudus – L. pollostos – L. pulcher – L. pumilus – L. ranauensis – L. sacrolineatus – L. shebae – L. tepukapili – L. vanuatuensis – L. woodfordi – L. yami – L. zweifeli
Name

Lepidodactylus Fitzinger, 1843: 19

Type species: Platydactylus lugubris Duméril & Bibron, 1836, by original designation.

References
Primary references

Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Ota, H., Fisher, R.N., Ineich, I. & Case, T.J. 1995. Geckos of the Genus Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Reptilia) in Micronesia: Description of a New Species and Reevaluation of the Status of Gecko moestus Peters, 1867. Copeia 1995(1): 183–195. DOI: 10.2307/1446813 Paywall Reference page.
Stubbs, A.L., Karin, B.R., Arifin, U., Iskandar, D.T., Arida, E., Reilly, S.B., Block, L.M., Kusnadi, A. & McGuire, J.A. 2017. A new species of Lepidodactylus (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Kei Islands, Maluku, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4350(1): 91–105. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.5 Paywall Reference page.
Kraus, F. 2019. New species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from New Guinea and adjacent islands. Zootaxa 4651(2): 305–329. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.2.7 Paywall Reference page.
Kraus, F. & Oliver, P.M. 2020. A new species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the mountains of northeastern Papua New Guinea: older than the hills. Zootaxa 4718(4): 549–561. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.4.8 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Lepidodactylus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 January 2020.
Lepidodactylus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Lepidodactylus is a large genus of geckos, commonly known as scaly-toed geckos and closely related to house geckos or dtellas.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Lepidodactylus are found from Southeast Asia to Indo-Australia and Oceania.
Species

There are 45 described species in this genus, which are considered valid.[2]

Species

Taxon author ‡

Common Name

Lepidodactylus aignanus

Kraus, 2019

Lepidodactylus aureolineatus

Taylor, 1915

golden scaly-toed gecko, yellow-lined smooth-scaled gecko

Lepidodactylus babuyanensis

Eliades, Brown, Huang, & Siler, 2021

Lepidodactylus bakingibut

Eliades, Brown, Huang, & Siler, 2021

Lepidodactylus balioburius

Ota & Crombie, 1989

Batan scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus bisakol

Eliades, Brown, Huang, & Siler, 2021

Lepidodactylus browni

Pernetta & Black, 1983

Brown's scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus buleli

Ineich, 2008

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus christiani

Taylor, 1917

Christian's scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus dialeukos

Kraus, 2019

Lepidodactylus euaensis

J.R.H. Gibbons & W.C. Brown, 1988

Eua scaly-toed gecko, Eua forest gecko

Lepidodactylus flaviocularis

W.C. Brown, M. McCoy & Rodda, 1992

yellow-eyed scaly-toed gecko, yellow-eyed gecko

Lepidodactylus gardineri

Boulenger, 1897

Rotuman forest Gecko

Lepidodactylus guppyi

Boulenger, 1884

Solomon scaly-toed gecko, Guppy's gecko

Lepidodactylus herrei

Subspecies
Lepidodactylus herrei herrei
Lepidodactylus herrei medianus

Taylor, 1923

Negros scaly-toed gecko, white-lined smooth-scaled gecko

Lepidodactylus intermedius

Darevsky, 1964

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus kwasnickae

Kraus, 2019

Lepidodactylus labialis

(W. Peters, 1867)

Mindanao false gecko, dark-spotted smooth-scaled gecko

Lepidodactylus listeri

(Boulenger, 1889)

Christmas Island chained gecko, Lister's gecko

Lepidodactylus lombocensis

Mertens, 1929

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus lugubris

(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836)

mourning gecko, common smooth-scaled gecko

Lepidodactylus magnus

W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1977

mountain scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus manni

Schmidt, 1923

Fiji scaly-toed gecko, Viti forest gecko

Lepidodactylus mitchelli

Kraus, 2019

Lepidodactylus moestus

(W. Peters, 1867)

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus mutahi

W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1977

Bougainville's scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus nakahiwalay

Eliades, Brown, Huang, & Siler, 2021

Lepidodactylus novaeguineae

W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1977

New Guinea scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus oligoporus

Buden, 2007

Mortlock Islands scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus oortii

(Kopstein, 1926)

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus orientalis

W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1977

Oriental scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus pantai

Stubbs, Karin, Arifin, Iskandar, Arida, Reilly, Bloch, Kusnadi & McGuire, 2017

beach scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus paurolepis

Ota et al., 1995

Seventy Islands gecko

Lepidodactylus planicauda

Stejneger, 1905

Mindanao scaly-toed gecko, small broad-tailed smooth-scaled gecko

Lepidodactylus pollostos

Karkkainen, Richards, Kraus, Tjaturadi, Krey & Oliver, 2020

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus pulcher

Boulenger, 1885

Wild scaly-toed gecko, Admiralty gecko

Lepidodactylus pumilus

(Boulenger, 1885)

slender chained gecko

Lepidodactylus ranauensis

Ota & Hikida, 1988

Sabah scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus sacrolineatus

Kraus & Oliver, 2020

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus shebae

(W.C. Brown & V.M. Tanner, 1949)

Guadalcanal scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus tepukapili

Zug et al., 2003

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus vanuatuensis

Ota et al., 1998

(no common name)

Lepidodactylus woodfordi

Boulenger, 1887

Woodford's scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus yami

Ota, 1987

Lanyu scaly-toed gecko

Lepidodactylus zweifeli

Kraus, 2019

‡ Nota bene: A taxon author (binomial authority) in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lepidodactylus.
Eponyms

The specific name, browni, is in honor of American herpetologist Walter Creighton Brown.[3]

The specific name, christiani, is in honor of U.S. Army Lieutenant Ralph L. Christian.[3]

The specific name, gardineri, is in honor of British zoologist John Stanley Gardiner.[3]

The specific name, guppyi, is in honor of British naturalist Henry Brougham Guppy.[3]

The specific name, herrei, is in honor of American ichthyologist Albert William Herre.[3]

The specific name, manni, is in honor of American entomologist William Montana Mann.[3]

The specific name, oorti, is in honor of Dutch ornithologist Eduard Daniël van Oort.[3]

The specific name, woodfordi, is in honor of British naturalist Charles Morris Woodford.[3]
References

"Lepidodactylus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). www.itis.gov.
Genus Lepidodactylus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

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. (Lepidodactylus browni, p. 41; L. christiani, p. 54; L. gardineri, p. 97; L. guppyi, p. 112; L. herrei, p. 122; L. manni, p. 167; L. oorti, p. 195; L. woodfordi, p. 289).