Toropuku inexpectatus

Toropuku inexpectatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pygopodomorpha

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: Pygopodomorpha

Familia: Diplodactylidae
Genus: Toropuku
Species: Toropuku inexpectatus

Name

Toropuku inexpectatus Hitchmough, Nielsen & Bauer, 2020

• Holotype: MONZ RE.006939, adult ♀, collected by A. Wright on 3 August 1999.
• Type locality: “road through forest near Port Charles, Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, New Zealand”.

References

Primary references

• Hitchmough, R.A., Nielsen, S.V. & Bauer, A.M. 2020. Earning your stripes: a second species of striped gecko in the New Zealand gecko genus Toropuku (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae). Zootaxa 4890(4): 578–588. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.4.9 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Toropuku inexpectatus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 March 2023.