Bunopus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Bunopus
Species (4): B. blanfordii – B. crassicauda – B. orientalis – B. tuberculatus

Name

Bunopus Blanford, 1874: 454

• Type species: Bunopus tuberculatus Blanford, 1874, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Blanford, W.T. 1874. Descriptions of new lizards from Persia and Baluchistán. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 4 13(78): 453–455. DOI: 10.1080/00222937408680903 BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Khosravani, A., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Oraie, H. & Papenfuss, T.J. 2017. Resolving species delimitation within the genus Bunopus Blanford, 1874 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Iran using DNA barcoding approach. Zootaxa 4365(4): 467–479. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.4.6 Reference page. 
• Pola, L., Crochet, P.-A., Geniez, P., Shobrak, M., Busais, S., Jablonski, D., Masroor, R., Abduraupov, T., Carranza, S. & Šmíd, J. 2024. Some like it hot: Past and present phylogeography of a desert dwelling gecko across the Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Biogeography 51(7): 1244–1258. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14823 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Bunopus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 May 2025.