Tropiocolotes
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Tropiocolotes
Species (12):
T. algericus –
T. bisharicus –
T. chirioi –
T. confusus –
T. hormozganensis –
T. nattereri –
T. naybandensis –
T. nubicus –
T. scorteccii –
T. somalicus –
T. steudneri –
T. tassiliensis –
T. tripolitanus –
T. wolfgangboehmei –
T. yomtovi
Name
Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880: 306
- Type species: Tropiocolotes tripolitanus Peters, 1880, by monotypy
References
Primary references
- Peters, W. 1869. Über die von Mm. Gerhard Rohlfs und Dr. A. Stecker auf der Reise nach der Oase Kufra gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1880: 305–309. BHL
Additional references
- Wilms, T.M., Shobrak, M. & Wagner, P. 2010. A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes from Central Saudi Arabia (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 57(2): 275–280. BHL Reference page.
- Krause, V., Ahmadzadeh, F., Moazeni, M., Wagner, P. & Wilms, T.M. 2013. A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 from western Iran (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 3716(1): 22–38. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3716.1.2
Reference page. - Rounaqi, I., Rastagar-Pouyani, E., Gholamifard, A. & Hosseinian, S. 2017. Genetic and morphological variability among the populations assigned to the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in south Iran. Zootaxa 4303(2): 243–252. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.2.4. Reference page.
- Rajabizadeh, M., Faizi, H., Anderson, S.C., Zarrintab, M. & Nazarov, R. 2018. Taxonomic status of Tropiocolotes cf. steudneri with a description of a new species of Tropiocolotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) in southern Iran. Zootaxa 4388(2): 283–291. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.2.10 Reference page.
- Machado, L., Šmíd, J., Mazuch, T., Sindaco, R., Al Shukaili, A.S. & Carranza, S. 2019. Systematics of the Saharo-Arabian clade of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos with the description of a new species of Tropiocolotes endemic to Oman. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(1): 159–178. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12226 Reference page.
- Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A., Tamar, K., Maza, E., Flecks, M., Wagner, P., Shacham, B., Calvo, M., Geniez, P., Crochet, P.-A., Koch, C. & Meiri, S. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Zoologica Scripta 51(3): 288–309. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12532 Reference page.
- Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A., Koch, C., Flecks, M., Calvo, M. & Meiri, S. 2022. Dwarves in a Big World: Two New Species of Tropiocolotes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sahara Desert, with the First Detailed Skull Description of the Genus. Journal of Herpetology 56(4): 396–421. DOI: 10.1670/20-103 Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Tropiocolotes . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 May 2025.
Vernacular names
- English: Dwarf Geckos, Pygmy Geckos