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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 29th, 2023.


Taxonomy of the family Diplodactylidae
Bibliography of the genus Hoplodactylus
Biodiversity of the family Diplodactylidae








Genus
Hoplodactylus

New Zealand Giant Geckos, Grey-Brown Geckos

Neuseeländische Riesengeckos, Neuseeländische Braungeckos, Aotearoa-Graugeckos

Newzealandske Kæmpegekkoer

1843 Hoplodactylus Fitzinger (type species: Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron 1836)
1845 Pentadactylus Gray [not Pentadactylus Bruguière 1792 (Mollusca)] (type species: Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron 1836; syn. Bauer 1994)
Contents: 2 species of which both are endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Previously included the species now assigned to Dactylocnemis, Gigarcanum, Mokopirirakau, Toropuku, Tukutuku, and Woodworthia.
Distribution: New Zealand (Cook Strait Islands, North Island [incl. outlying islands]).

Hoplodactylus duvaucelii

Northern Giant Gecko, (New Zealand Giant Gecko, Duvaucel's Gecko)

Nördlicher Riesengecko, (Duvaucels Gecko)

Nordlig Kæmpegekko

1836 Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron
Hoplodactylus duvaucelii Fitzinger 1843
Pentadactylus duvaucelii Gray 1845
Naultinus duvauceli Chrapliwy, Smith & Grant 1961
Woodworthia duvauceli Jewell 2008

Remarks: Previously included the population now assigned to tohu. Formerly widespread in the North Island, but now almost exclusively occurs on outlying islands (Jewell 2008). For some time believed to have become extinct in the North Island (e.g., Bauer 1994), however, a relict mainland population was recently discovered in the North Island (Morgan-Richards, Hinlo, Smuts-Kennedy, Innes, Ji, Barry, Brunton & Hitchmough 2016). Bavay's (1869) record from New Caledonia refers to Rhacodactylus trachyrhynchus (Bauer & Sadlier 2000).
Distribution: New Zealand (North Island [incl. outlying islands]).


Hoplodactylus tohu

Southern Giant Gecko

Südlicher Riesengecko

Sydlig Kæmpegekko

2023 Hoplodactylus tohu Scarsbrook, Walton, Rawlence & Hitchmough

Remarks: Previously regarded as a population of duvaucelii. Formerly widespread in the South Island, but now restricted to islands in the Cook Strait (Scarsbrook, Walton, Rawlence & Hitchmough 2023).
Distribution: New Zealand (Cook Strait Islands).