Infraorder GEKKOTA - Geckos

Family PHYLLODACTYLIDAE

Family PHYLLODACTYLIDAE - the Leaf-Toed Geckos

This family came into being under the recent reclassification of geckos and represents the "leaf-toed" geckos.

With the exception of Tarentola, few of these geckos are common within the herpetocultural hobby, at least within the UK.

Scientific Name	Common Name	Distribution	# of Species	Notes
Asaccus		Middle East and Turkey	7
Gymnodactylus	Naked Toe Geckos	Brazil	3	Formerly a much larger genus: many species now broken off into other genera
Haemodracon	Socotran Geckos	Yemen (Socotra Island)	2	Both formerly part of the genus Phyllodactylus
Homonota	Marked Geckos	South America, also Antilles	10
Phyllodactylus	Leaf-Toed Geckos	South and Central America as far north as S USA	47	Formerly a much larger genus, but Old World members were reclassified into other genera.
Phyllopezus		Brazil	2
Ptyodactylus	Fan-Fingered Geckos	North Africa and Middle East	6	Name derives from enlarged circular pad at tip of each toe
Tarentola	Wall Geckos*	Spain, N & W Africa and Atlantic Islands, Caribbean	20	T. mauritanica and T. annularis often offered within the pet trade: robust species
Thecadactylus		Americas from Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia	1

Bibliography

General Care and Maintenance of Tokay Geckos and Related Species, McKeown and Zaworski, Herpetocultural Library 1997. If you want to keep any of the Gekko, Ptychozoon or Cyrtodactylus species, I thoroughly recommend this book.

Lizards of the World, Mattison

Keeping and Breeding Lizards, Mattison

Lizard-Keeper's Handbook, de Vosjoli, Herpetocultural Library Series, 1994.

Lizard Care from A to Z, Bartlett and Bartlett, Barrons 1997.

Echsen [Lizards] 1, Rogner, Ulmer 1992.

Geckos: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual, Bartlett and Bartlett, Barrons 1995.

Geckos: Keeping and Breeding Them in Captivity, Walls and Walls, TFH 1999.

Breeding and Keeping Geckos, Coborn, TFH 1995. Both Coborn and the Walls' book offer excellent information on many of the gecko species, including some useful descriptions of the rarer Australo-Pacific species, as does Rogner's book.

Grzimek, Volume 6, Reptiles. (see Bibliography on the main Gecko page).

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