Goniurosaurus
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Goniurosaurus is a genus of geckos in the family Eublepharidae. The genus contains 27 species. Members species are known by various common names including cave geckos, ground geckos, leopard geckos, and tiger geckos. Members of this genus are found in China, Japan, and Vietnam. For this reason they are also known commonly as Asian geckos.
Diet
Geckos of the genus Goniurosaurus mainly feed on small insects.
Species
The following 27 species are recognized as being valid.<ref>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
They can be divided into four species groups.
luii group:
- Goniurosaurus araneus Template:Small – Vietnamese leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus catbaensis Template:Small – Cat Ba leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus chengzheng Template:Small – Chengzheng cave gecko
- Goniurosaurus gezhi Template:Small<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Goniurosaurus huuliensis Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus luii Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus liboensis Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum Template:Small – Kadoories's cave gecko
- Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis Template:Small – Guangxi cave gecko
lichtenfelderi group:
- Goniurosaurus hainanensis Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus kwanghua Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi Template:Small – Lichtenfelder's gecko
- Goniurosaurus sinensis Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus zhoui Template:Small – Zhou's leopard gecko
kuroiwae group:
- Goniurosaurus kuroiwae Template:Small – Kuroiwa's ground gecko
- Goniurosaurus nebulozonatus Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus orientalis Template:Small – spotted ground gecko
- Goniurosaurus sengokui Template:Small – Sengoku's gecko
- Goniurosaurus splendens Template:Small – banded ground gecko
- Goniurosaurus toyamai Template:Small – Iheyajima leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus yamashinae Template:Small – Yamashina's ground gecko
yingdeensis group:
- Goniurosaurus gollum Template:Small – Gollum leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus varius Template:Small
- Goniurosaurus wangshu Template:Small – Wangshu's leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus yingdeensis Template:Small – Yingde leopard gecko
- Goniurosaurus zhelongi Template:Small – Zhe-long's leopard gecko
Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Goniurosaurus.
References
Further reading
- Barbour T (1908). "Some New Reptiles and Amphibians". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 51 (12): 315–325. (Goniurosaurus, new genus, p. 316).