#gekko vittatus

[neechiegeckos]

Two beautiful captive bred White Line Geckos

One of these beautiful girls was sent out to Ontario recently! She will be joining another breeding project. A healthy captive bred population means fewer animals taken from the wild! This beautiful species has been exploited by the pet trade. For a long time the majority of animals were wild caught, sold in awful condition for less than $30.

Support captive breeding! Buying from a breeder means you have access to the animal's lineage, care history, feeding schedule, weight, and is generally much cheaper than buying from a store!

There are definitely reputable specialty pet stores out there, which will often purchase stock from local breeders.

These beautiful animals deserve the best of care ♡

[herpsandbirds]

Lined Gecko (Gekko vittatus), family Gekkonidae, found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and other nearby islands

photograph by Paul Freed

[chaobunnyarts]

Tiny geckos [4/4] + Phylogenetic Tree

25 - Lined Gecko (Gekko vittatus) 26 - Northern spiny-tailed gecko (Strophurus ciliaris) 27 - Three-lined knob-tailed gecko (Nephrurus levis) 28 - Common flat-tail gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus) 29 - Geckolepis megalepis, a species of fish-scale gecko 30 - Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero (Sphaerodactylus parthenopion) 31 - Delcourt's giant gecko (Hoplodactylus delcourti)

[hbmmaster]

huh! the genus Gekko, from dutch "gekko" (common gender) is masculine (as in Gekko vittatus). so I guess that's how it works

in zoology, animal species are given standard "latin" names consisting of two words, the genus name and the species name. typically, the genus name is a noun, and the species name is an adjective. following the rules of latin grammar, adjectives need to agree with nouns with grammatical gender, so if the genus name is a feminine latin noun then all species of that genus are given (in principle) adjectives marked with feminine latin suffixes.

in practice of course, new genus names don't always use actual latin words, so these latin grammatical gender rules need to be grafted onto words that aren't really latin. and this is where one of the weirdest conventions of zoological binomial nomenclature comes in!

how exactly do you determine what the latin grammatical gender of a word is if it isn't a latin word? according to the ICZN, it's simple:

if the word is from greek, use its gender in greek

otherwise, if the word is from a modern european language with grammatical gender that uses the latin alphabet, use the gender in the source language (yes it is that specific)

otherwise, if the name ends with -a it's feminine

otherwise, if the name ends with -um, -u, or -o it's neuter

otherwise, it's masculine

unless of course if the zoologist with naming dibs says explicitly that they think this genus should have an irregular gender.

anyway these rules are fascinating to me. why are they this specific? grammatical gender systems compatible with latin's adjective suffixes are found throughout the entire indo-european language family, so why restrict it to modern european latin-script languages (and greek)? I don't know!

[tmgeckos]

[snakemanaustralia]

Australasian Journal of Herpetology 38:6-18.

Published 10 August 2018.

INTRODUCTION

The Asian gecko genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 as recognized by

most herpetologists in 2018 includes a significant array of

sometimes large and spectacular species. About 60 described

forms are currently recognized as species. However others await

resurrection from synonymy or formal scientific description for

the first time, meaning that species diversity of the genus as

recognized is underestimated.

This paper arose out of a global audit of the planet’s

herpetofauna, including the geckos, with a view to correcting the

genus-level classification in light of information that has

emerged in the past century.

Since the publication of major texts by Boulenger and

contemporaries at the end of the 1800’s, much of the genuslevel

taxonomy of the world’s reptiles has not been changed or

updated to better reflect phylogeny and divergences between

groups of species.

To that end, various phylogenies published in the past decade

(e.g. Heinicke et al. 2012 or Pyron et al. 2013) have shown the

genus Gekko as recognized in 2018 to be of ancient origin and

other morphologically similar genera to place within the Gecko

tree.

Even within Gekko sensu stricto Heinicke et al. (2012) show

divergence between taxa in excess of 50 MYA, while Oliver et al.

(2017) claim divergences in excess of 30 MYA.

Rather than merge dozens more disparate species into an even

greater-sized genus, this paper is one of a series dividing the

A significant improvement to the taxonomy of the gecko genus

Gekko Laurenti, 1768 sensu lato to better reflect morphological

diversity and ancient divergence within the group.

RAYMOND T. HOSER

488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia.

Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au

Received 29 March 2017, Accepted 15 June 2018, Published 10 August 2018.

ABSTRACT

The Asian gecko genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 as recognized by most herpetologists in 2018 includes a

significant array of sometimes large and spectacular species. About 60 described forms are currently

recognized as species. However others await resurrection from synonymy or formal scientific description for

the first time, meaning that as of 2018, species diversity is underestimated.

Various phylogenies published in the past decade (e.g. Heinicke et al. 2012, Pyron et al. 2013, Oliver et al.

2017) have shown the genus Gekko to be of ancient origin and other morphologically similar genera to place

within the Gecko tree.

Even species within Gekko sensu stricto Heinicke et al. (2012) show divergence between taxa in excess of 50

MYA., while Oliver et al. (2017) claim divergences well in excess of 30 MYA.

Rather than merge dozens more disparate species into an even greater-sized genus, this paper is one of a

series dividing the complex of genera into monophyletic species groups at the genus level based on

divergence and morphology. The division of groups in this and other papers published at the same time

dealing with the complex is extremely conservative relative to dates of divergence splits in other widely

recognized reptile genera

This paper deals with the genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 as currently recognized, excluding those species

closely associated with the taxon originally described as Gekko vittatus Houttuyn, 1782, which is dealt with in

another paper.

In summary the genus Gekko is herein split along lines similar to the species groups identified by Rösler et al.

(2011), with the most divergent groups being treated as genera and subgenera. The result is 6 genera

(including the Gekko vittatus Houttuyn, 1782 species group) and further subgenera.

Four genera and six subgenera are formally named for the first time according to the rules of the International

Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999).

Keywords: Gecko; taxonomy; reptile; nomenclature; Asia; Gekko; Luperosaurus; Pseudogekko;

Lepidodactylus; Ptychozoon; Scelotretus; new genus; Sparsuscolotes; Lautusdigituscolotes; Magnaocellus;

Extentusventersquamus; New subgenus; Sinogekko; Aurumgekko; Glanduliscrusgekko; Cavernagekko;

Foderetdorsumgekko.

[designerexotics]

Male Gekko Vittatus out hunting. #gecko #gekkovittatus #skunkgecko #reptiles #designerexotics http://ift.tt/2wCG2Qi

[happygecko-natasharomanoff]

Natasha Romanoff (White-lined gecko (Gekko vittatus) enjoying some applesauce, exploring the coffee table 😊

[neechiegeckos]

Captive bred baby White Line Geckos!

Terribly underappreciated species. They're absolutely gorgeous!

[herpsandbirds]

Lined Gecko (Gekko vittatus), family Gekkonidae, found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and other nearby islands

photograph by https://www.roonami.com/

[neechiegeckos]

Momma Stella letting me know she'll kick my butt if I bother her eggs!

[neechiegeckos]

Grant, male Gekko vittatus

[neechiegeckos]

Stella and eggs. Busy girl!

[neechiegeckos]

Female White Line Gecko

vs

Female Tokay Gecko

[neechiegeckos]

Stella and Grant ♡

[neechiegeckos]

Freshly hatched White Line Gecko