Goggia

Goggia, also known commonly as dwarf leaf-toed geckos or pygmy geckos, is a genus of African geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae.<ref name="Bauer1997" />

Geographic range

Species in the genus Goggia are found in southern Africa.<ref name="Bauer1997" />

Species

The following ten species are recognized as being valid.<ref>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

• Goggia braacki (Good, Bauer & Branch, 1996) – Braack's dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia essexi (Hewitt, 1925) – Essex's dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia gemmula (Bauer, Branch & Good, 1996) – Richtersveld dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia hewitti (Branch, Bauer & Good, 1995) – Hewitt's dwarf leaf-toed gecko<ref>Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Goggia hewitti, p. 123).</ref>
• Goggia hexapora (Branch, Bauer & Good, 1995) – Cedarberg dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia incognita Template:Small
• Goggia lineata (Gray, 1838) – striped dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia matzikamaensis Template:Small
• Goggia microlepidota (V. FitzSimons, 1939) – small-scaled dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia rupicola (V. FitzSimons, 1938) – Namaqualand dwarf leaf-toed gecko<ref name="Bauer1997">Bauer AM, Good DA, Branch WR (1997). "The taxonomy of the southern African leaf-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with a review of Old World "Phyllodactylus " and the description of five new genera". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 49 : 447–497. (Goggia, new genus, p. 470).</ref>

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was original described in a genus other than Goggia.

Further reading

• Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second Impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Goggia, pp. 239–240).

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