Goniurosaurus Explained

Goniurosaurus is a genus of geckos, containing 25 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 26 species are recognized as being valid.^{[1] [2]}

They can be divided into 4 species groups.

luii group:

• Goniurosaurus araneus (Vietnamese leopard gecko)
• Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis
• Goniurosaurus catbaensis (Cat Ba leopard gecko)
• Goniurosaurus chengzheng (Chengzheng cave gecko)
• Goniurosaurus gezhi ^[3]
• Goniurosaurus huuliensis
• Goniurosaurus luii
• Goniurosaurus liboensis
• Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum (Kadoories's cave gecko)
• Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis (Guangxi cave gecko)

lichtenfelderi group:

• Goniurosaurus hainanensis
• Goniurosaurus kwanghua
• Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi (Lichtenfelder's gecko)
• Goniurosaurus sinensis
• Goniurosaurus zhoui (Zhou's leopard gecko)

kuroiwae group:

• Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Kuroiwa's ground gecko)
• Goniurosaurus orientalis (Spotted ground gecko)
• Goniurosaurus sengokui (Sengoku's gecko)
• Goniurosaurus splendens (Banded ground gecko)
• Goniurosaurus toyamai (Iheyajima leopard gecko)
• Goniurosaurus yamashinae (Yamashina's ground gecko)

yingdeensis group:

• Goniurosaurus gollum (Gollum leopard gecko)
• Goniurosaurus varius
• Goniurosaurus wangshu (Wangshu's leopard gecko)
• Goniurosaurus yingdeensis (Yingde leopard gecko)
• Goniurosaurus zhelongi (Zhe-long's leopard gecko)

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).

External links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus

Notes and References

1. "Goniurosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. Qi. Shuo. Grismer. L. Lee. Lyu. Zhi-Tong. Zhang. Liang. Li. Pi-Peng. Wang. Ying-Yong. 2020-11-05. A definition of the Goniurosaurus yingdeensis group (Squamata, Eublepharidae) with the description of a new species. ZooKeys. 986. 127–155. 10.3897/zookeys.986.47989. 1313-2970. 7661482. 33223883. free. 2020ZooK..986..127Q .
3. Zhu. Xiao-Yu. Chen. Guang-Yu. Román-Palacios. Cristian. Li. Zheng. He. Zhu-Qing. 2020-09-15. Goniurosaurus gezhi sp. nov., a new gecko species from Guangxi, China (Squamata: Eublepharidae). Zootaxa. en. 4852. 2. 211–222. 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.2.6. 33056426. 222821642. 1175-5334.