© 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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Hoplodactylus Fitzinger (type species: Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron 1836) |
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Pentadactylus Gray [not Pentadactylus Bruguière 1792 (Mollusca)] (type species: Platydactylus duvaucelii Dumeril & Bibron 1836; syn. Bauer 1994) |
Contents:
1 living and 1 extinct species, both 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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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 probably the North Island (Bauer 1990, 1994; Gill & Whitaker 2001).
However, 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).
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Hoplodactylus duvaucelii
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New Zealand Giant Gecko (Duvaucel's Gecko)
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Neuseeländische Riesengecko, (Duvaucels Gecko)
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Newzealandsk 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:
Formerly widespread on the mainland of both the North Island and the South Island, but now almost exclusively occurs on outlying islands (Jewell 2008).
For some time belived to have become extinct in both the South Island and 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
(Cook Strait Islands,
North Island
[incl.
outlying islands]).
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