Genus of lizards
Goniurosaurus is a genus of geckos , containing 25 species . Members are known by various names including ground geckos , tiger geckos , leopard geckos , and cave geckos Members of this genus are found in China , Japan , and Vietnam . For this reason they are known commonly as Asian geckos. They belong to the family Eublepharidae .
Geckos of the genus Goniurosaurus mainly feed on small insects.
The following 26 species are recognized as being valid.[ 1] [ 2]
They can be divided into 4 species groups.
luii group:
Goniurosaurus araneus Grismer et al., 1999 (Vietnamese leopard gecko)
Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis Grismer et al., 2002
Goniurosaurus catbaensis Ziegler , Truong, Schmitz , Stenke & Rösler , 2008 (Cat Ba leopard gecko)
Goniurosaurus chengzheng Zhu, Liu, Bai, Roman-Palacios, Li, & He, 2021 (Chengzheng cave gecko)
Goniurosaurus gezhi Zhu, He & Li, 2020 [ 3]
Goniurosaurus huuliensis Orlov et al., 2008
Goniurosaurus luii Grismer et al., 1999
Goniurosaurus liboensis Wang et al., 2013
Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum Yang & Chan, 2015 (Kadoories's cave gecko)
Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis Yang & Chan, 2015 (Guangxi cave gecko)lichtenfelderi group:
Goniurosaurus hainanensis Barbour , 1908
Goniurosaurus kwanghua Zhu & He, 2020
Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi (Mocquard , 1897) (Lichtenfelder's gecko)
Goniurosaurus sinensis Zhou, Peng, Hou, & Yuan, 2019
Goniurosaurus zhoui Zhou, Wang, Chen, & Liang, 2018 (Zhou's leopard gecko)kuroiwae group:
yingdeensis group:
^ "Goniurosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ Qi, Shuo; Grismer, L. Lee; Lyu, Zhi-Tong; Zhang, Liang; Li, Pi-Peng; Wang, Ying-Yong (2020-11-05). "A definition of the Goniurosaurus yingdeensis group (Squamata, Eublepharidae) with the description of a new species" . ZooKeys (986): 127–155. Bibcode :2020ZooK..986..127Q . doi :10.3897/zookeys.986.47989 . ISSN 1313-2970 . PMC 7661482 . PMID 33223883 .
^ Zhu, Xiao-Yu; Chen, Guang-Yu; Román-Palacios, Cristian; Li, Zheng; He, Zhu-Qing (2020-09-15). "Goniurosaurus gezhi sp. nov., a new gecko species from Guangxi, China (Squamata: Eublepharidae)" . Zootaxa . 4852 (2): 211–222. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4852.2.6 . ISSN 1175-5334 . PMID 33056426 . S2CID 222821642 .
Barbour T (1908). "Some New Reptiles and Amphibians". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College 51 (12): 315–325. (Goniurosaurus , new genus, p. 316).