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Gekko swinhonis GÜNTHER, 1864

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Peking Gecko
Chinese: 无蹼壁虎 
SynonymGekko swinhonis SWINHOE 1863: 222 (nom. nud.)
Gecko swinhonis GÜNTHER 1864: 104
Gecko swinhonis — BOULENGER 1885: 189
Gekko swinhonis — STEJNEGER 1926: 36
Gekko swinhonis — SCHMIDT 1927
Gekko swinhonis — RÖSLER 2000: 82
Gekko (Japonigekko) swinhonis — WOOD et al. 2019
Gekko (Japonigekko) swinhonis — WOOD et al. 2020 
DistributionN China (south to Zhejiang)

Type locality: Northern China  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.8.30.50 (and possibly additional specimens). 
Diagnosis 
CommentHistory: Swinhoe announced that species in 1863 as being described by GÜNTHER.

The original description is available online (see link below). 
EtymologyNamed after Robert Swinhoe (1836-1877), born in Calcutta, India, but educated at London University (1852). 
References
  • Barbour, Thomas 1909. Notes on Amphibia and Reptilia from Eastern Asia. Proc. New England zool. Club 4: 53-78, 2 plates - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Günther, A. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp. - get paper here
  • Kwon H, Yan J, Jang H, Park J, Kim J, Park I-K, Park D 2023. First record and origin of the non-native Peking gecko Gekko swinhonis Günther, 1864 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), newly discovered in Incheon Metropolitan City, South Korea. BioInvasions Records 12 - get paper here
  • Kwon, H., Jang, H., Kim, J., Park, I. K., & Park, D. 2022. First Record and Genetic Diversity of the Peking Gecko (Gekko swinhonis, Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Incheon, South Korea. 한국양서ㆍ파충류학회 학술대회, 16-16 - get paper here
  • Li, Hui-Min; De-Long Zeng, Qing-Xin Guan, Ping-Sheng Qin, and Xin-Min Qin 2013. Complete mitochondrial genome of Gekko swinhonis (Squamata, Gekkonidae). Mitochondrial DNA 24 (2): 86-88 - get paper here
  • LUU, VINH QUANG; TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE, MICHAEL BONKOWSKI, THOMAS ZIEGLER 2017. A new karst dwelling species of the Gekko japonicus group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from central Laos. Zootaxa 4263 (1): 179-193 - get paper here
  • 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 - get paper here
  • Rafe M. Brown, Cameron D. Siler, Indraneil Das, Yong Min 2012. Testing the phylogenetic affinities of Southeast Asia’s rarest geckos: Flap-legged geckos (Luperosaurus), Flying geckos (Ptychozoon) and their relationship to the pan-Asian genus Gekko. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 915-921 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Schmidt, K.P. 1927. Notes on Chinese reptiles. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, 54 (4): 467-551 - get paper here
  • Stejneger, L. 1925. Chinese amphibians and reptiles in the United States National Museum. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 66 (2562): 1-115. - get paper here
  • Stejneger, L.H. 1934. The Chinese lizards of the genus Gekko. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 82 (3) 8 pp. [1932] - get paper here
  • Swinhoe,R. 1863. A list of the Formosan reptiles; with notes on a few of the species, and some remarks on a fish (Orthagoriscus, sp.). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 12: 219-226 - get paper here
  • Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
  • Wood Jr, Perry L.; Xianguang Guo, Scott L. Travers, Yong-Chao Su, Karen V. Olson, Aaron M. Bauer, L. Lee Grismer, Cameron D. Siler, Robert G. Moyle, Michael J. Andersen, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements. bioRxiv 717520 [preprint] - get paper here
  • 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] - get paper here
  • Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
  • Zhou, Kaiya & Wang, Qiuxian 2008. New species of Gekko (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from China: morphological and molecular evidence. Zootaxa 1778: 59-68 - get paper here
 
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