Diplodactylidae

Diplodactylidae
Temporal range: Paleocene - Recent
Diplodactylus vittatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Superfamily: Pygopodoidea
Family: Diplodactylidae
Underwood, 1954[1]
Genera

25, see text

The Diplodactylidae are a family in the suborder Gekkota (geckos), with over 150 species in 25 genera.[2] These geckos occur in Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia.[3][4] Diplodactylids are the most ecologically diverse and widespread family of geckos in both Australia and New Caledonia, and are the only family of geckos found in New Zealand.[5][6] Three diplodactylid genera (Oedura, Rhacodactylus, and Hoplodactylus) have recently been split into multiple new genera.[7][8][9]

In previous classifications, the family Diplodactylidae is equivalent to the subfamily Diplodactylinae.[10]

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  2. ^ Diplodactylidae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 19 April 2021.
  3. ^ Han, Demin; Zhou, Kaiya; Bauer, Aaron M. (2004). "Phylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards inferred from C-mos nuclear DNA sequences and a new classification of the Gekkota". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 83 (3): 353–368. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00393.x.
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  6. ^ Skipwith, Phillip L.; Bi, Ke; Oliver, Paul M. (2019-11-01). "Relicts and radiations: Phylogenomics of an Australasian lizard clade with east Gondwanan origins (Gekkota: Diplodactyloidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 140: 106589. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106589. PMID 31425788.
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  8. ^ Oliver, Paul M.; Bauer, Aaron M.; Greenbaum, Eli; Jackman, Todd; Hobbie, Tara (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics of the arboreal Australian gecko genus Oedura Gray 1842 (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae): Another plesiomorphic grade?". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (2): 255–264. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.013. PMID 22209860.
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  10. ^ Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR. 1978. Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. ("Subfamily Diplodactylinae", p. 284).