Goniurosaurus kuroiwae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkomorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Gekkomorpha

Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Namiye, 1912)

Holotype: NSMT H-2525, collected by T. Kuroiwa in September 1909.
Type locality: Taniyo-dake, Haneji, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa-jima Is., Okinawa, Japan.

Gymnodactylus albofasciatus kuroiwae Namiye, 1912: 444 [original combination, as subspecies]
Eublepharis kuroiwae — Nakamura & Ueno, 1963: 100 [subsequent combination]
Amamisaurus kuroiwae — Börner, 1981: 4 [subsequent combination]
Goniurosaurus kuroiwae — Grismer, 1987: 44 [subsequent combination]

Namiye, M. 1912. [The geckos from the Okinawa Islands] (In Japanese). Zoological Magazine 24: 442–445. BHL

Ota, H. 1989. A review of the geckos (Lacertilia: Reptilia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago and Taiwan. pp. 222-261 In: Matsui, M., Hikida, T. & Goris, R.C. (eds.). Current herpetology in East Asia. Herpetological Society of Japan: Kyoto
Grismer, L.L., Ota, H. & Tanaka S. 1994. Phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, with description of a new subspecies. Zoological Science 11(2): 319–335. BHL Reference page.
Environment Agency of Japan (eds.). 2000. Treatened Wildlife of Japan - Red Data Book. 2 nd ed. Reptillia/Amphibia. Japan Agency of Environment: Tokyo. xi + 120 p. ISBN 4-915959-70-8 [1]
Kurita, T., Honda, M. & Toda, M. 2018. Species delimitation and biogeography of the Ryukyu ground geckos, Goniurosaurus kuroiwae ssp. (Squamata: Eublepharidae), by use of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56(2): 209–222. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12198 Reference page.

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Goniurosaurus kuroiwae. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 12 January 2020.
Kidera, N. & Ota, H. 2017. IUCN: Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T98152257A96877452. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T98152257A96877452.en

English: Kuroiwa's Ground Gecko
日本語: クロイワトカゲモドキ