Gehyra

Gehyra
Gehyra vorax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Family:	Gekkonidae
Subfamily:	Gekkoninae
Genus:	Gehyra Gray, 1834
Species
41 recognized species, see text.

Gehyra dubia, dubious dtella

Gehyra mutilata, stump-tailed gecko

Gehyra is a genus of geckos known commonly as web-toed geckos or dtellas.

Geographic range

Gehyra species have a wide geographic range, covering most of the Oceania and Melanesian Islands as far north as the Ryukyu Islands and Thailand.

Description

Dtellas are moderately sized geckos. Gehyra species have toepads and powerful claws. Like some other geckos they also have a tendency to drop strips of skin if handled carelessly.

Species

The following 41 species are recognized as being valid.^[1][2]

• Gehyra angusticaudata (Taylor, 1963) – narrow-tailed four-clawed gecko
• Gehyra australis (Gray, 1845) – top-end dtella
• Gehyra baliola (A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – short-tailed dtella
• Gehyra barea Kopstein, 1926 – Banda Island dtella
• Gehyra borroloola King, 1984 – Borroloola dtella
• Gehyra brevipalmata (W. Peters, 1874) – Palau Island dtella
• Gehyra butleri Boulenger, 1900 – Butler's dtella
• Gehyra catenata Low, 1979 – chain-backed dtella
• Gehyra dubia (Macleay, 1877) – dubious dtella
• Gehyra fehlmanni (Taylor, 1962) – Fehlmann's dtella
• Gehyra fenestra F. Mitchell, 1965 – Pilbara spotted gecko
• Gehyra georgpotthasti Flecks et al., 2012
• Gehyra interstitialis Oudemans, 1894 – Oudemans' dtella
• Gehyra kimberleyi Börner & Schüttler, 1982 – Kimberley dtella
• Gehyra koira Horner, 2005 – banded rock dtella
• Gehyra lacerata (Taylor, 1962) – lacerated dtella
• Gehyra lazelli (Wells & Wellington, 1985)
• Gehyra leopoldi Brongersma, 1930 – Leopold dtella
• Gehyra marginata Boulenger, 1887 – Moluccan gecko
• Gehyra membranacruralis King & Horner, 1989 – Port Moresby dtella
• Gehyra minuta King, 1982 – dwarf dtella
• Gehyra montium Storr, 1982 – Centralian dtella
• Gehyra moritzi Hutchinson et al., 2014
• Gehyra multiporosa Doughty et al., 2012
• Gehyra mutilata (Wiegmann, 1834) – stump-tailed gecko
• Gehyra nana Storr, 1978 – northern spotted rock dtella
• Gehyra occidentalis King, 1984 – Kimberley Plateau dtella
• Gehyra oceanica (Lesson, 1830) – Pacific dtella
• Gehyra pamela King, 1982 – Arnhemland Watercourse dtella
• Gehyra papuana A. Meyer, 1874 – Papua dtella
• Gehyra pilbara Mitchell, 1965 – Pilbara dtella
• Gehyra pulingka Hutchinson et al., 2014
• Gehyra punctata (Fry, 1914) – spotted dtella
• Gehyra purpurascens Storr, 1982 – purplish dtella
• Gehyra robusta King, 1984 – robust dtella
• Gehyra serraticauda Skipwith & P. Oliver, 2014
• Gehyra spheniscus Doughty et al., 2012
• Gehyra variegata (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836) – tree dtella
• Gehyra versicolor Hutchinson et al., 2014
• Gehyra vorax Girard, 1858 – Halmahera giant
• Gehyra xenopus Storr, 1978– crocodile-faced dtella

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Gehyra.

References

Further reading

• Boulenger GA. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus Gehyra, p. 147).

• Gray JE. 1834. "Characters of Two New Genera of Reptiles (Geoemyda and Gehyra)". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1834: 99-100. (Gehyra, new genus, p. 100). (in Latin and English).

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• Smith MA. 1935. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (Genus Gehyra, p. 104, Figure 30).