Colopus
| Colopus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Subfamily: | Gekkoninae |
| Genus: | Colopus W. Peters, 1869 |
| Species, Subspecies | |
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Colopus is a genus of geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae. The genus is endemic to Southern Africa.
Habitat and Geographic range
The species in the genus Colopus are found in the Kalahari desert, in the nation states of Botswana, Namibia, and the Republic of South Africa.
Species and subspecies
The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[1][2][3]
- Colopus kochii (V. FitzSimons, 1959) – Cape Cross thick-toed Gecko, Koch’s gecko (German: Kochs Dickfingergecko)[4]
- Colopus wahlbergii W. Peters, 1869 – Wahlberg's Kalahari Gecko
- Colopus wahlbergii furcifer Haacke, 1976
- Colopus wahlbergii wahlbergii W. Peters, 1869
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Colopus.
Etymology
The specific name, kochii, is in honor of Austrian-born South African entomologist Charles Koch.[5]
The specific name, wahlbergii, is in honor of Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg.[5]
References
- ↑ Colopus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ↑ "Colopus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/lacertilia/gekkota/Gekkonidae.
- ↑ "Colopus ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
- ↑ Colopus kochii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- 1 2 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. (Colopus kochii, p. 144; Colopus wahlbergii, p. 278).
Further reading
- Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Colopus, p. 238).
- Peters W (1869). "Eine Mittheilung über neue Gattungen und Arten von Eidechsen [= A communication on new genera and species of lizards]". Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 57-66. (Colopus, new genus, p. 57). (in German and Latin).
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