Tropiocolotes is a genus of geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae. The genus is native to North Africa and the Middle East. Species in the genus Tropiocolotes grow to a total length (including tail) of about 2 in (5.1 cm). They are commonly known as dwarf geckos, pygmy geckos, or sand geckos. They have an elongated body and the head is oval and of equal or lesser width than the body.
| Tropiocolotes | |
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| Steudner's dwarf gecko (Tropiocolotes steudneri) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Subfamily: | Gekkoninae |
| Genus: | Tropiocolotes W. Peters, 1880 |
Species & subspecies
editThe following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Tropiocolotes algericus Loveridge, 1947 – Algerian sand gecko
- Tropiocolotes bisharicus S. Baha El Din, 2001 – Bishari dwarf gecko
- Tropiocolotes chirioi Ribeiro-Júnior, Koch, Flecks, Calvo, & Meiri 2022
- Tropiocolotes confusus Machado, Smíd, Mazuch, Sindaco, Shukaili & Carranza, 2018
- Tropiocolotes hormozganensis Rounaghi, Rastegar-Pouyani & Hosseinian, 2018
- Tropiocolotes nattereri Steindachner, 1901 – Natterer's gecko
- Tropiocolotes naybandensis Krause et al., 2013
- Tropiocolotes nubicus S. Baha El Din, 1999 – Steudner's gecko
- Tropiocolotes scorteccii Cherchi & Spanò, 1963 – Scortecci's sand gecko[2]
- Tropiocolotes somalicus Parker, 1942 – Parker's pigmy gecko
- Tropiocolotes steudneri (W. Peters, 1869) – Steudner's dwarf gecko
- Tropiocolotes tassiliensis Ribeiro-Júnior, Koch, Flecks, Calvo, & Meiri 2022
- Tropiocolotes tripolitanus W. Peters, 1880 – northern sand gecko, Tripoli gecko
- Tropiocolotes tripolitanus apoklomax Pappenfuss, 1969
- Tropiocolotes tripolitanus occidentalis Parker, 1942
- Tropiocolotes tripolitanus tripolitanus W. Peters, 1880
- Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei Wilms, Shobrak & Wagner, 2010
- Tropiocolotes yomtovi Ribeiro-Júnior, Tamar, Maza, Flecks, Wagner, Shacham,, Calvo,, Geniez, Crochet, Koch, & Meiri, 2022
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tropiocolotes.
References
edit- ^ Genus Tropiocolotes at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tropiocolotes scortecci, p. 239).
Further reading
edit- Baha El Din SM (2001). "A synopsis of African and south Arabian geckos of the genus Tropiocolotes (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), with a description of a new species from Egypt". Zoology in the Middle East 22: 45–56.
- Peters W (1880). "Über die von Hrn. Gerhard Rohlfs und Dr. A. Stecker auf der Reise nach der Oase Kufra gesammelten Amphibien ". Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1880: 305–309. (Tropiocolotes, new genus, p. 306). (in German and Latin).