Lizards of
Mexico  
Leaf-toed Geckos
(Phyllodactylidae)  

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General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable.
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Lizards (Sauria)
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Species
References
 Family Phyllodactylidae (Leaf-toed Geckos)
Genus Phyllodactylus (American Leaf-toed Geckos)
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Phyllodactylus benedettii

Jaliscan Leaf-toed Gecko

Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 [as P. lanei] Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 [as P. lanei] Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 [as P. lanei] Grant & Smith 1960 [as P. lanei] Ramírez-Reyes & Flores-Villela 2018 Ramírez-Reyes, Piñero, Flores-Villela & Vázquez-Domínguez 2017 [as P. rupinus] Smith & Grant 1958c [as P. lanei] Webb 1982 [as P. rupinus]
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Phyllodactylus bordai

Guerreran Leaf-toed Gecko

Canseco Márquez & Gutiérrez Mayén 2006 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Davis & Dixon 1961 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Phyllodactylus bugastrolepis

Santa Catalina Island Leaf-toed Gecko

Dixon 1966 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Murphy, Blair & Mendez de la Cruz 2009 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Phyllodactylus davisi

Colima Leaf-toed Gecko

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Méndes-de la Cruz, de la Vega-Pérez & Lara-Resendiz 2014 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Phyllodactylus delcampi

Tierra Colorada Leaf-toed Gecko

Davis & Dixon 1961 Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 [as "delcampoi"] Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 [as "delcampoi"]
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Phyllodactylus duellmani

Michoacan Pygmy Leaf-toed Gecko

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Dixon 1960b Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Phyllodactylus homolepidurus

Sonoran Leaf-toed Gecko

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Enderson, Devender & Bezy 2014 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Liner 2007 Peralta-García, Samaniego-Herrera & Valdez-Villavicencio 2007 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Zweifel & Norris 1955
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Phyllodactylus isabelae

Marietas Islands Leaf-toed Gecko

Castro-Franco & Uribe-Peña 1992 Liner 2007 Ramírez-Reyes, Piñero, Flores-Villela & Vázquez-Domínguez 2017
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Phyllodactylus kropotkini

Balsas Leaf-toed Gecko

Ramírez-Reyes & Flores-Villela 2018
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Phyllodactylus lanei

West Mexican Leaf-toed Gecko

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 [as P. l. lanei] Davis & Dixon 1961 [as P. lanei] Liner 1994 [as P. l. lanei] Liner 2007 [as P. l. lanei] Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 [as P. l. lanei] Smith & Taylor 1950 [as P. l. lanei] Wermuth 1965 [as P. l. lanei] Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 [as P. lanei]
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Phyllodactylus lupitae

Isla la Peña Leaf-toed Gecko

Castro-Franco & Uribe-Peña 1992 Liner 2007 Ramírez-Reyes, Piñero, Flores-Villela & Vázquez-Domínguez 2017
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Phyllodactylus muralis

Oaxacan Leaf-toed Gecko

Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Chrapliwy & Fugler 1955 Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Peterson, Canseco-Márquez, Contreras-Jiménez, Escalona-Segura, Flores-Villela, García-López, Hernandez-Baños, Jiménez-Ruiz, León-Paniagua, Amaro, Navarro-Sigüenza, Sánchez-Cordero & Willard 2004 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Phyllodactylus nocticolus

Peninsular Leaf-toed Gecko

Blair, Mendez de la Cruz, Ngo, Lindell, Lathrop & Murphy 2009 Dixon 1966 Dugan, Murray, Mills, Fischer, Lohr & Faust 2017 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Murphy, Blair & Mendez de la Cruz 2009 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Phyllodactylus papenfussi

Mezcala Leaf-toed Gecko

Murphy, Blair & Mendez de la Cruz 2009 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018
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Phyllodactylus partitus

Partida Norte Island Leaf-toed Gecko

Dixon 1966 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 [as "partidus"] Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 [as "partidus"]
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Phyllodactylus paucituberculatus

Rio Marquez Valley Gecko

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Dixon 1960b Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Phyllodactylus rupinus

Lombardia Leaf-toed Gecko

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 [as P. lanei] Dixon 1964 Duellman 1965a [as P. lanei] Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Díaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2011 [as P. lanei] Ramírez-Reyes, Piñero, Flores-Villela & Vázquez-Domínguez 2017 Smith & Taylor 1950 [as P. l. lanei] Wermuth 1965
 
Phyllodactylus tuberculosus

Yellow-bellied Leaf-toed Gecko

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 2003 Davis & Dixon 1961 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Grismer & Grismer 1987 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Holman 1964 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Köhler 2000 Lee 1996 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner & Dundee 1969 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McCoy & Horn 1962 McDiarmid, Copp & Breedlove 1976 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Burger 1955 [as magnus] Smith & Taylor 1950 Smith, Lemos-Espinal & Heimes 2005 Tanner 1987 Valdez-Lares & Gadsden 2014 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016
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Phyllodactylus unctus

San Lucan Leaf-toed Gecko

Alvarez, Galina & Ortega-Rubio 1989 Banks & Farmer 1963 Etheridge 1961 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Murphy, Blair & Mendez de la Cruz 2009 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Phyllodactylus xanti

Baja Cape Leaf-toed Gecko

Blair, Mendez de la Cruz, Ngo, Lindell, Lathrop & Murphy 2009 Cryder, Grismer, Hollingsworth & Wong 1997 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
Genus Thecadactylus (Turnip-tailed Geckos)
 
Thecadactylus rapicauda

Northern Turnip-tailed Gecko

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Arenas-Moreno, Santos-Bibiano, Arellano-Cárcamo, Brindis-Badillo & Charruau 2017 Bergmann & Russell 2007 Calderon, Cedeño-Vázquez & Pozo 2003 Calderón-Mandujano & Mora-Tembre 2004 Duellman 1965b Flores-Villela 1993 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Sanchez-Herrera & Alvarez del Toro 1980 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013