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Leopard geckos were first described as a species by zoologist Edward Blyth in 1854 as Eublepharis macularius. [1] The generic name Eublepharis is a combination of the Greek words eu (good) and blepharos (eyelid), as having eyelids is the primary characteristic that distinguishes members of this subfamily from other geckos, along with a lack of lamellae.
Genus Image Type species Taxon author Common name Species Aeluroscalabotes: A. felinus: A. felinus (Günther, 1864): Boulenger, 1885 : Cat gecko 1 Coleonyx: C ...
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.
The toes do not have adhesive lamellae or membranes (Eublepharis cannot climb like their other gecko cousins). [1] [page needed] Like all members of Eublepharidae, they are primarily nocturnal. [1] [page needed] [2] Included in this group is the popular pet leopard gecko Eublepharis macularius. [1] [page needed]
West Indian leopard gecko This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 05:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
From “slender” to spiky to “fringed,” researchers discovered dozens of new species of gecko in 2023. Take a look at five of these little lizards.
Binomial name; Goniurosaurus varius. Qi, Grismer, Lyu, Zhang, Li, & Wang, 2020 ... Goniurosaurus varius, commonly known as the Nanling leopard gecko, is a gecko ...
Body stout; limbs rather short; digits short. Snout as long as distance between orbit and ear-opening; the latter large, suboval, vertical. Head covered-with irregular polygonal scales, intermixed with enlarged tubercles on the temple and occiput; rostral sub-pentagonal, twice as broad as high, with, median cleft above; 3 or 4 internasals; about 10 upper and as many lower labials; mental ...