Reeves's Tokay gecko

Reeves's tokay gecko (Gekko reevesii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Asia.

Reeves's Tokay gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Gekko
Species:
G. reevesii
Binomial name
Gekko reevesii
(Gray, 1831)
Synonyms[2]
  • Gecko [sic] reevesii Gray 1831
  • Gekko gecko Mertens, 1955
  • Gekko reevesii {{small Rösler et al., 2011}}
  • Gekko (Gekko) reevesii Wood et al., 2019

Etymology

The specific name, reevesii, is in honor of English naturalist John Reeves.[3]

Geographic range

G. reevesii is indigenous to China and northwestern Vietnam.[2]

References
  1. Nguyen, T.Q.; Cai, B.; Yang, J. (2021). "Gekko reevesii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T104717831A104718941. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T104717831A104718941.en. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. Gekko reevesii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Reeves", p. 218).

Further reading
  • Gray JE (1831). "A Synopsis of the Species of the Class Reptilia". In: Griffith E, Pidgeon E (1831). The Animal Kingdom arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c., with additional Descriptions of all the Species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, Volume the Ninth. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co. 481 pp. + supplement, 110 pp. (Gecko reevesii, new species, p. 48 of supplement).
  • Mertens R (1955). "Über eine eigenartige Rasse des Tokehs (Gekko gecko) aus Ost-Pakistan ". Senckenbergiana Biologica 36: 21–24. (Gekko reevesii considered a synonym of Gekko gecko). (in German).
  • Rösler H, Bauer AM, Heinicke MP, Greenbaum E, Jackman T, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T (2011). "Phylogeny, taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 with the revalidation of G. reevesii Gray, 1831 (Sauria: Gekkonidae)". Zootaxa 2989: 1–50. (Gekko reevesii revalidated at specific rank).


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