Tropiocolotes

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
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
Subfamilia: Gekkoninae
Genus: Tropiocolotes
Species (12): T. algericus – T. bisharicus – T. confusus – T. hormozganensis – T. nattereri – T. naybandensis – T. nubicus – T. scorteccii – T. somalicus – T. steudneri – T. tripolitanus – T. wolfgangboehmei
Name

Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880: 306

Type species: Tropiocolotes tripolitanus Peters, 1880, by monotypy
References
Primary references

Peters, W. 1869. Über die von Mm. Gerhard Rohlfs und Dr. A. Stecker auf der Reise nach der Oase Kufra gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1880: 305–309. BHL

Additional references

Wilms, T.M., Shobrak, M. & Wagner, P. 2010. A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes from Central Saudi Arabia (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 57(2): 275–280. BHL Reference page.
Krause, V., Ahmadzadeh, F., Moazeni, M., Wagner, P. & Wilms, T.M. 2013. A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 from western Iran (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 3716(1): 22–38. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3716.1.2 Reference page.
Rounaqi, I., Rastagar-Pouyani, E., Gholamifard, A. & Hosseinian, S. 2017. Genetic and morphological variability among the populations assigned to the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in south Iran. Zootaxa 4303(2): 243–252. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.2.4. Reference page.
Machado, L., Šmíd, J., Mazuch, T., Sindaco, R., Al Shukaili, A.S. & Carranza, S. 2018. Systematics of the Saharo-Arabian clade of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos with the description of a new species of Tropiocolotes endemic to Oman. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(1): 159–178. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12226 Reference page.
Rajabizadeh, M., Faizi, H., Anderson, S.C., Zarrintab, M. & Nazarov, R. 2018. Taxonomic status of Tropiocolotes cf. steudneri with a description of a new species of Tropiocolotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) in southern Iran. Zootaxa 4388(2): 283–291. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.2.10 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. March 2019 Tropiocolotes 26 March 2019. The Reptile Database.

Vernacular names
English: Dwarf Geckos, Pygmy Geckos