| Phyllodactylidae | |
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| Leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus xanti) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Gekkonomorpha |
| Suborder: | Gekkota |
| Superfamily: | Gekkonoidea |
| Family: | Phyllodactylidae Gamble et al., 2008 |
| Genera | |
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The Phyllodactylidae are a family of geckos (Gekkota) consisting of 163 species in 10 genera,1 distributed throughout the New World, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The family was first delineated based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2008, and all members possess a unique single codon deletion in the phosducin (PDC) gene.2 The phyllodactylid genus Bogertia has been recently synonymized with Phyllopezus.3 The name of the family comes from the leaf shaped fingers.
Genera
These genera are considered members of the Phyllodactylidae:4
| List of genera | |||||
| Genus | Image | Type species | Taxon author | Common name | Species |
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| Asaccus |  A. elisae |
A. elisae (F. Werner, 1895) | Dixon & S. Anderson, 1973 | Southwest Asian leaf-toed geckos | 18 |
| Garthia |  G. gaudichaudii |
G. gaudichaudii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836) | Donoso-Barros & Vanzolini, 1965 | Chilean marked geckos | 2 |
| Gymnodactylus |  G. geckoides |
G. geckoides Spix, 1825 | Spix, 1825 | Naked-toed geckos | 5 |
| Haemodracon |  H. riebeckii |
H. riebeckii (W. Peters, 1882) | Bauer, Good & Branch, 1997 | 2 | |
| Homonota |  H. septentrionalis |
H. horrida (Burmeister, 1861) | Gray, 1845 | Marked geckos | 14 |
| Phyllodactylus |  P. lanei |
P. pulcher Gray, 1828 | Gray, 1828 | American leaf-toed geckos | 65 |
| Phyllopezus |  P. pollicaris |
P. pollicaris (Spix, 1825) | W. Peters, 1877 | 8 | |
| Ptyodactylus |  P. guttatus |
P. hasselquistii (Donndorff, 1798) | Goldfuss, 1820 | Fan-fingered geckos | 12 |
| Tarentola |  T. mauritanica |
T. mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758) | Gray, 1825 | Wall geckos | 33 |
| Thecadactylus |  T. solimoensis |
T. rapicauda (Houttuyn, 1782) | Goldfuss, 1820 | Turnip-tailed geckos | 3 |
References
References
- Reptile Database
- Gamble, T.; Bauer, A.M.; Greenbaum, E.; Jackman, T.R. (July 2008). "Out of the blue: A novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata)". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (4): 355–366. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00330.x. S2CID 83706826.
- Gamble, T.; Colli, G.R.; Rodrigues, M.T.; Werneck, F.P.; Simons, A.M. (2012). "Phylogeny and cryptic diversity in geckos (Phyllopezus; Phyllodactylidae; Gekkota) from South America's open biomes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62 (3): 943–953. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.033. PMID 22182991.
- Gamble, T.; Bauer, A.M.; Colli, G.R.; Greenbaum, E.; Jackman, T.R.; Vitt, L.J.; Simons, A.M. (February 2011). "Coming to America: Multiple Origins of New World Geckos". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24 (2): 231–244. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02184.x. PMC 3075428. PMID 21126276.