Toropuku inexpectatus

Toropuku inexpectatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pygopodoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Pygopodomorpha Superfamilia: Pygopodoidea

Familia: Diplodactylidae
Genus: Toropuku
Species: Toropuku inexpectatus

Name

Toropuku inexpectatus Hitchmough, Nielsen & Bauer, 2020

• Holotype: MONZ RE.006939, adult ♀, collected by A. Wright on 3 August 1999.
• Type locality: “road through forest near Port Charles, Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, New Zealand”.

References

Primary references

• Hitchmough, R.A., Nielsen, S.V. & Bauer, A.M. 2020. Earning your stripes: a second species of striped gecko in the New Zealand gecko genus Toropuku (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae). Zootaxa 4890(4): 578–588. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.4.9 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Toropuku inexpectatus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 March 2023.