Phyllodactylus Gray

Castiglia, Riccardo, Annesi, Flavia, Bezerra, Alexandra M. R., García, Andrés & Flores-Villela, Oscar, 2010, Cytotaxonomy and DNA taxonomy of lizards (Squamata, Sauria) from a tropical dry forest in the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve on the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, Zootaxa 2508, pp. 1-29 : 11

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.196005

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6210562

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scientific name

Phyllodactylus Gray
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Phyllodactylus Gray

The genus Phyllodactylus was formerly included in a diverse group of leaf-toed geckos occurring all-over the world. Currently and on the basis of morphological and allozyme phylogenetic analyses, several lineages of Old World leaf-toed geckos are proposed as distinct genera, such as Afrogecko (southern Africa), Christinus ( Australia) , Cryptactites (southern Africa), Goggia (southern Africa), Dixonius (southeast Asia), Euleptes (Mediterranean) , Haemodracon ( Sokotra) , and Matoatoa ( Madagascar) ( Bauer et al. 1997; Gamble et al. 2008). The species within the genus Phyllodactylus sensu stricto are now constrained to the New World. Nonetheless, although there are more than 50 species in the genus, molecular genetic and karyological data are very scant, with rDNA 16S sequences reported in less than ten species ( Weiss & Hedges 2007; Blair et al. 2009).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Phyllodactylidae

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