Taxonomy: families
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Lizards (Sauria)

   Genera


Aeluroscalabotes
Cat Gecko


Coleonyx
Banded Eyelid Geckos


Eublepharis
Southwest Asian Fat-tailed Geckos


Goniurosaurus
East Asian Leopard Geckos


Hemitheconyx
African Fat-tailed Geckos


Holodactylus
East African Clawed Geckos
Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: June 24th, 2024.


Biodiversity of the family Eublepharidae Bibliography of the family Eublepharidae

Eublepharidae

Eyelid Geckos
Lidgeckos     Øjenlågsgekkoer



Contents: Endemicity:
6 genera of which none are endemic  0% 100%
48 species of which 32 (66.7%) are endemic  0% 100%

Remarks: Previously regarded as a subfamily of the family Gekkonidae (e.g., Wermuth 1965; Goin, Goin & Zug 1978). Status as a separate family was given by Kluge (1987), although it was already considered as such by some previous works (e.g., Terentjev & Chernov 1949).

Distribution:  North and Central America, W. and E. Africa, Middle East, S. Asia, Malay Archipelago.

Reported from: Afghanistan, Belize, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Senegal, Singapore, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, USA, Vietnam.