Pygopodoidea

Pygopodoidea
Temporal range: Albian – Present, 110–0 Ma
Eastern stone gecko (Diplodactylus vittatus)
Pink-tailed worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: Gekkonomorpha
Infraorder: Gekkota
Clade: Pygopodomorpha
Vidal & Hedges, 2009
Superfamily: Pygopodoidea
Gray, 1845
Families

Pygopodoidea is a gecko superfamily and the only taxon in the gekkotan subclade Pygopodomorpha. The clade includes three Australasian families: Diplodactylidae (stone geckos), Carphodactylidae (knob-tailed geckos), and Pygopodidae (flap-footed geckos). Traditional gekkotan systematics had considered Diplodactylidae and Carphodactylidae as subfamilies of the family Gekkonidae, but recent molecular work have placed Pygopodidae within Gekkonidae making it paraphyletic.[1] These analyses have shown support of Pygopodidae and Carphodactylidae being sister taxa, with Diplodactylidae occupying a basal position in Pygopodoidea.[2][3][4]

Below is a taxonomic list of pygopodoid genera in taxonomic order:

  • Pygopodomorpha (Vidal & Hedges, 2009)
    • Pygopodoidea (Gray, 1845)
      • Diplodactylidae (Underwood, 1954) – Stone Geckos
        • Crenadactylus (Dixon & Kluge, 1964) – Clawless Gecko
        • Nebulifera (Oliver, Bauer, Greenbaum, Jackman & Hobbie, 2012) – Robust Velvet Gecko
        • Amalosia (Wells & Wellington, 1984) – Amalosian Velvet Geckos
        • Oedura (J. E. Gray, 1842) – Oeduran Velvet Geckos
        • Hesperoedura (Oliver, Bauer, Greenbaum, Jackman & Hobbie, 2012) – Reticulated Velvet Gecko
        • Strophurus (Fitzinger, 1843) – Spiny-tailed Geckos
        • Diplodactylus (Gray, 1832) – Stone Geckos
        • Rhynchoedura (Günther, 1867) – Beaked Geckos
        • Lucasium (Wermuth, 1965) – Ground Geckos
        • Toropuku (Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty, 2011) – New Zealand Striped Gecko
        • Naultinus (Gray, 1842) – New Zealand Green Geckos
        • Tukutuku (Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty, 2011) – Harlequin Gecko
        • Dactylocnemis (Steindachner, 1867) – Pacific Geckos
        • Mokopirirakau (Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty, 2011) – Forest Geckos
        • Woodworthia (Garman, 1901) – Woodworth's Geckos
        • Hoplodactylus (Fitzinger, 1843) – Hoplodactyl Geckos
        • Pseudothecadactylus (Brongersma, 1936) – Cave Geckos
        • Bavayia (Roux, 1913) – Bavay's Geckos
        • Paniegekko (Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier & Whitaker, 2012) – Panié du Massif Gecko
        • Dierogekko (Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier & Whitaker, 2006) – New Caledonian Striped Geckos
        • Oedodera (Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier & Whitaker, 2006) – Marbled Gecko
        • Correlophus (Guichenot, 1866) – Correloph Geckos
        • Rhacodactylus (Fitzinger, 1843) – Rhacodactyl Geckos
        • Mniarogekko (Bauer, Whitaker, Sadlier & Jackman, 2012) – Mossy Geckos
        • Eurydactylodes (Wermuth, 1965) – New Caledonian Chameleon Geckos
      • Carphodactylidae (Kluge, 1967) – Knob-tailed Geckos
        • Phyllurus (Schinz, 1822) – Phyllur Leaf-tailed Geckos
        • Saltuarius (Couper, Covacevich & Moritz, 1993) – Saltuar Leaf-tailed Geckos
        • Orraya (Couper, Covacevich, Schneider & Hoskin, 2000) – McIlwraith Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Carphodactylus (Günther, 1897) – Australian Chameleon Gecko
        • Uvidicolus (Oliver & Bauer, 2011) – Border Thick-tailed Gecko
        • Underwoodisaurus (Wermuth, 1965) – Underwood's Geckos
        • Nephrurus (Günther, 1876) – Knob-tailed Geckos
      • Pygopodidae (Gray, 1845) – Flap-footed Geckos
        • Delma (Gray, 1831) – Delmas
        • Lialis (Gray, 1835) – Lialis
        • Ophidiocephalus (Lucas & Frost, 1897) – Bronzeback Snake-lizard
        • Pletholax (Cope, 1864) – Slender Slider
        • Aprasia (Gray, 1839) – Worm Geckos
        • Paradelma (Kinghorn, 1926) – Brigalow Scalyfoot
        • Pygopus (Merrem, 1820) – Scalyfeet
  1. ^ Han, D., K. Zhou, & A. M. Bauer. 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: 353– 368.
  2. ^ Gamble, T., A. M. Bauer, E. Greenbaum, & T.R. Jackman. 2008. Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards. Journal of Biogeography 35: 88-104
  3. ^ Pyron, R; Burbrink, Frank T; Wiens, John J (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13: 93. Bibcode:2013BMCEE..13...93P. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
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