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Mokopirirakau kahutarae (WHITAKER, 1985)

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Black-eyed Gecko 
SynonymHoplodactylus kahutarae WHITAKER 1985: 260
Haplodactylus kahutarae — ZOOLOGICAL RECORD
Hoplodactylus kahutarae — KLUGE 1993
Hoplodactylus kahutarae — RÖSLER 2000: 90
Mokopirirakau kahutarae — NIELSEN et al. 2011 
DistributionNew Zealand (Seaward Kaikoura Range, South Island)

Type locality: West side of Kahutara Saddle, Seaward Kaikoura Range (42° 19’ 22 ‘’ S, 173° 26’ 06’’ E), 1380 m elevation.  
ReproductionViviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMNZ R 1980, adult female. Paratypes: NMNZ 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Medium-sized Hoplodactylus. Eyes large, with prominent eyebrows, iris black. Body scales very small. Toes long, slender, tapering gradually from sole to claw. Apical plates not enlarged. Dark olive grey above, with 6 (usually) or 7 lighter transverse bands across body, undersurface white. (Whitaker 1985)


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Etymologynamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Hitchmough, Rodney A.; Geoffrey B. Patterson, and David G. Chapple 2016. Putting a Name to Diversity: Taxonomy of the New Zealand Lizard Fauna. in: Chapple, D.G. (ed). New Zealand Lizards. Springer, pp. 87-108 - get paper here
  • KNOX, CAREY; RODNEY A. HITCHMOUGH, STUART V. NIELSEN, TONY JEWELL, TRENT BELL 2021. A new, enigmatic species of black-eyed gecko (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae: Mokopirirakau) from North Otago, New Zealand. Zootaxa 4964 (1): 140–156 - get paper here
  • Nielsen, Stuart V.; Aaron M. Bauer, Todd R. Jackman, Rod A. Hitchmough and Charles H. Daugherty 2011. New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): Cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 (1): 1-22 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • WAITE, JENNIFER & COLLIER, KATHLEEN 2012. Range extension of the black-eyed gecko (Mokopirirakau kahutarae) in Kahurangi National Park. BioGecko (1): 40 - get paper here
  • Whitaker, A.H. 1985. Hoplodactylus kahutarae n. sp. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the Seaward Kaikoura Range, Marlborough, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 11: 259-270 (1984) - get paper here
  • Winkel, D. van, Baling, M. & Hitchmough, R. 2018. Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand: A field guide. Auckland University Press, Auckland, 376 pp.
 
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