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    Species Accepted

    Gekko yakuensis Matsui & Okada, 1968

    Yakushima Gecko

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      4 results
      Yakushima Gecko English
      ヤクヤモリ Japanese
      屋久壁虎 Chinese
      야쿠도마뱀부치 Korean

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
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      Okada, S. (1998). Examination of gecko specimens collected by Mr. Yasuhiko Shibata around Osumi peninsula in the southern Kyushu (In Japanese with English abstract.). Hibakagaku 185: 7–13.
      Shibata, Y. (1981). A new record of the Gekkonid lizard Gekko yakuensis from Tanega-shima Island, Kyushu, Japan (Reptilia: Sauria). (In Japanese with English abstract.). Occasional Paper of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 1: 149–154.
      NGUYEN, TRUONG QUANG; YING-YONG WANG, JIAN-HUAN YANG, TANJA LEHMANN, MINH DUC LE, THOMAS ZIEGLER, MICHAEL BONKOWSKI. (2013). A new species of the Gekko japonicus group (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the border region between China and Vietnam. Zootaxa 3652 (5): 501–518.
      Goris, R. C., & Maeda, N. (2004). Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan. Krieger, Malabar, 285 Pp.
      Toda, M., Okada, S., Ota, H., & Hikida, T. (2001). Biochemical assessment of evolution and taxonomy of the morphologically poorly diverged geckos, Gekko yakuensis and G. hokouensis (Reptilia: Squamata) in Japan, with special reference to their occasional hybridization. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 73 (10: 153-165.
      Wood, P. L., Guo, X., Travers, S. L., Su, Y. C., Olson, K. V., Bauer, A. M., Grismer, L. L., Siler, C. D., Moyle, R. G., Andersen, M. J. and Brown, R. M. (2020). Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146: 106731 [Corrigendum: MPE 164: 107255].
      Toda, & Mamoru and Tsutomu Hikida. (2011). Possible Incursions of Gekko hokouensis (Reptilia: Squamata) into Non-Native Area: An Example from Yakushima Island of the Northern Ryukyus, Japan. Current Herpetology 30 (1): 33-39.
      Ota, & Hidetoshi. (1989). A review of the geckos (Lacertilia: Reptilia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago and Taiwan. In: Matsui et Al., Eds; Current Herpetology in East Asia: Proceedings of the Second Japan-China Herpetological Symposium Kyoto, July 1988: 222-261.
      Okamoto, K., Tominaga, A., & Toda, M. (2023). Demographic imbalance in the hybrid zone led to asymmetric gene flow between two closely related geckos, Gekko hokouensis and Gekko yakuensis (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Blad092.

      Citation

      Gekko yakuensis Matsui & Okada, 1968 in undefined