Bunopus

Bunopus is a genus of small geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae. The genus is endemic to the Middle East.

Bunopus
Bunopus crassicauda, in Iran
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Subfamily: Gekkoninae
Genus: Bunopus
Blanford, 1874
Species

See text.

Species

Three species are recognized as being valid.[1]

The species formerly known as Bunopus spatalurus, the spacious rock gecko, has been assigned to the genus Trachydactylus as Trachydactylus spatalurus.[3]

References

  1. "Bunopus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society, Vol. 31 (ISSN 0553-9587)
  3. "Trachydactylus spatalurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Blanford WT (1874). "Descriptions of new Lizards from Persia and Baluchistán". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fourth Series 13: 453–455. (Bunopus, new genus, p. 454; B. tuberculatus, new species, p. 454). (in English and Latin).


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