© Rune Midtgaard
 
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Genus
Hoplodactylus
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New Zealand Giant Geckos, Grey-Brown Geckos
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Neuseeländische Riesengeckos, Neuseeländische Braungeckos, Aotearoa-Graugeckos
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Newzealandske Kæmpegekkoer
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1843 |  |
Hoplodactylus Fitzinger (type species: Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron 1836) |
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1845 | |
Pentadactylus Gray [not Pentadactylus Bruguière 1792 (Mollusca)] (type species: Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron 1836; syn. Bauer 1994) |
Contents:
2 living and 1 extinct species. Both living species are endemic.
Endemism: 0%  100%
Remarks:
Previously included the species now assigned to
Dactylocnemis,
Mokopirirakau,
Toropuku,
Tukutuku, and
Woodworthia.
Distribution:
As for the single, surviving species, Hoplodactylus duvaucelii.
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Hoplodactylus delcourti
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Kawekaweau Giant Gecko, Kawekaweau
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Kawekaweau-Gecko
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Kawekaweau-kæmpegekko
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1986 | |
Hoplodactylus delcourti Bauer & Russell |
Remarks:
Recently extinct.
The largest gecko ever to have lived (Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty 2011).
Known from only a single specimen of unknown exact locality, but it is probably neither a Hoplodactylus species, nor from New Zealand (Scarsbrook, Walton, Rawlence & Hitchmough 2023).
Recent studies have suggested that the species is more closely related to New Caledonian geckos than to New Zealand species (Winkel, Baling & Hitchmough 2018).
Distribution:
New Zealand
(North Island). See remarks.
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Hoplodactylus duvaucelii
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Northern Giant Gecko, (New Zealand Giant Gecko, Duvaucel's Gecko)
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Nördlicher Riesengecko, (Duvaucels Gecko)
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Nordlig Kæmpegekko
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Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron |
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Hoplodactylus duvaucelii Fitzinger 1843 |
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Pentadactylus duvaucelii Gray 1845 |
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Naultinus duvauceli Chrapliwy, Smith & Grant 1961 |
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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]).
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Hoplodactylus tohu
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Southern Giant Gecko
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Südlicher Riesengecko
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Sydlig Kæmpegekko
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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).
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