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    Species Accepted

    Coleonyx switaki (Murphy, 1974)

    Barefoot Banded Gecko
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Coleonyx
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      Barefoot Banded Gecko English
      Barefoot Gecko English
      Cuija descalza Spanish
      Gebänderter oder Switaks Barfuß-Gecko German
      Geco Bandeado Peninsular Spanish
      Geco Descalzo Spanish
      Peninsular Banded Gecko English
      Switak's Banded Gecko English
      Switak’s Banded Gecko English
      geco de bandas de la península de Baja California Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      21 results
      MILLS, A. M., S. S. MURRAY, E. A. DUGAN, AND T. S. HENRY. (2020). Geographic Distribution: Coleonyx switaki (Switak’s Banded Gecko). USA: California: Imperial Co. Herpetological Review 51: 76.
      Murray, Sam S.; Dugan, Eric A.; Clause, Adam G.; Mills, Aaron M.; Shedd, Jackson D. (2024). Maximum size and mass of Switak’s Banded Gecko, Coleonyx switaki (Murphy, 1974). Herpetology Notes 17: 513-516.
      Jones, L. L., & Lovich, R. E. (2009). Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 Pp. [Review in Reptilia 86: 84].
      Bezy, Robert L. (2025). Biogeography of the Peninsular Reptiles in California. Sonoran Herpetologist 38 (2): 71-80.
      Rösler, H. (2000). Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153.
      Hansen, Robert and Jackson D. Shedd. (2025). California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press, 528 Pp., ISBN9780691249087 (Ebook).
      Grismer, L. Lee. (1999). An evolutionary classification of reptiles on islands in the Gulf of California, México. Herpetologica 55 (4): 446-469.
      Pianka, E. R., & Vitt, L. J. (2003). Lizards - Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. University of California Press, Berkeley, 347 Pp. [Review in Copeia 2004: 955].
      Grismer, L. L., and J. R. Ottley. (1988). A preliminary analysis of geographic variation in Coleonyx switaki (Squamata: Eublepharidae) with a description of an insular subspecies. Herpetologica 44: 143—154.
      Murphy, R. W. (1974). A new genus and species of eublepharine gecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Baja California, Mexico. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 40:87-92.

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