Tropiocolotes

Tropiocolotes steudneri

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: Tropiocolotes
Species (12): T. algericus – T. bisharicus – T. chirioi – T. confusus – T. hormozganensis – T. nattereri – T. naybandensis – T. nubicus – T. scorteccii – T. somalicus – T. steudneri – T. tassiliensis – T. tripolitanus – T. wolfgangboehmei – T. yomtovi

Name

Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880: 306

• Type species: Tropiocolotes tripolitanus Peters, 1880, by monotypy

References

Primary references

• Peters, W. 1869. Über die von Mm. Gerhard Rohlfs und Dr. A. Stecker auf der Reise nach der Oase Kufra gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1880: 305–309. BHL

Additional references

• Wilms, T.M., Shobrak, M. & Wagner, P. 2010. A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes from Central Saudi Arabia (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 57(2): 275–280. BHL Reference page. 
• Krause, V., Ahmadzadeh, F., Moazeni, M., Wagner, P. & Wilms, T.M. 2013. A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 from western Iran (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 3716(1): 22–38. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3716.1.2 Reference page. 
• Rounaqi, I., Rastagar-Pouyani, E., Gholamifard, A. & Hosseinian, S. 2017. Genetic and morphological variability among the populations assigned to the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in south Iran. Zootaxa 4303(2): 243–252. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.2.4. Reference page. 
• Rajabizadeh, M., Faizi, H., Anderson, S.C., Zarrintab, M. & Nazarov, R. 2018. Taxonomic status of Tropiocolotes cf. steudneri with a description of a new species of Tropiocolotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) in southern Iran. Zootaxa 4388(2): 283–291. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.2.10 Reference page. 
• Machado, L., Šmíd, J., Mazuch, T., Sindaco, R., Al Shukaili, A.S. & Carranza, S. 2019. Systematics of the Saharo-Arabian clade of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos with the description of a new species of Tropiocolotes endemic to Oman. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(1): 159–178. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12226 Reference page. 
• Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A., Tamar, K., Maza, E., Flecks, M., Wagner, P., Shacham, B., Calvo, M., Geniez, P., Crochet, P.-A., Koch, C. & Meiri, S. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Zoologica Scripta 51(3): 288–309. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12532 Reference page. 
• Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A., Koch, C., Flecks, M., Calvo, M. & Meiri, S. 2022. Dwarves in a Big World: Two New Species of Tropiocolotes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sahara Desert, with the First Detailed Skull Description of the Genus. Journal of Herpetology 56(4): 396–421. DOI: 10.1670/20-103 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Tropiocolotes . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 May 2025.

Vernacular names

• English: Dwarf Geckos, Pygmy Geckos