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The Eublepharidae are a family of geckos consisting of 43 described species in 6 genera.They occur in Asia, Africa, North America, and Central America. [1] [2] [3] [4 ...
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 mobile [2] upper and lower eyelids is the primary characteristic that distinguishes members of this subfamily from other geckos, along with a lack of lamellae.
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.
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]
Brook's house gecko (Hemidactylus brookii) Northern house gecko (Hemidactylus flaviviridis) Tokay gecko (Gekko gekko) Spotted house gecko (Gekko monarchus) Nepalese rock gecko (Cyrtodactylus nepalensis) Himalayan bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus himalayanus) Family: Eublepharidae Common leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) Family: Agamidae
The Afghan leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius afghanicus) is one of the five subspecies of the common leopard gecko, a small lizard belonging to the family Eublepharidae. [1] This subspecies was first discovered by entomologist Carl Julius Bernhard Börner in 1976. It is much smaller than other leopard gecko subspecies.
Eublepharis pictus, the painted leopard gecko, is a species of gecko. [2] It lives in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, in India . It can grow to 117 mm (4.6 in) in snout–vent length .
The Vietnamese leopard gecko or Chinese tiger gecko (Goniurosaurus araneus) is a species of lizards in the family Eublepharidae. It is found in the Cao Bằng Province of Vietnam and Guangxi in China. The scientific species name, is from the Latin, aranea, which means "spider", due to the spindly, spider-like form of this species. [3]