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Toropuku stephensi (ROBB, 1980)

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Stephen’s Sticky-toed Gecko, Stephens Island Gecko, Striped Gecko 
SynonymHoplodactylus stephensi ROBB 1980
Hoplodactylus pacificus — SHARELL 1966 (partim)
Hoplodactylus stephensi — KLUGE 1993
Hoplodactylus stephensi — RÖSLER 2000: 90
Toropuku stephensi — NIELSEN et al. 2011
Tukutuku stephensi — ADAMS et al. 2017: 26 (in error)
Toropuku stephensi — ADAMS et al. 2017: 32 
DistributionNew Zealand (Stephens and Maud Islands, Cook Strait, northern Coromandel Peninsula of the North Island)

Type locality: Stephens Island.  
ReproductionViviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMNZ R1858 (1980 Hoplodactylus stephensi Robb) 
Diagnosis 
CommentType species: Hoplodactylus stephensi ROBB 1980 is the type species of the genus Toropuku NIELSEN et al. 2011. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality, Stephens Island. The Island was named by James Cook on 31 March 1770 for a Secretary of the Board of Admiralty.

The genus was derived from the Maori word meaning ‘‘secret or stealthy’’ referring to the cryptic habits of and low levels of knowledge about the only species in the genus. Maori nouns typically have no gender, but we treat Toropuku as masculine for the purposes of nomenclatural construction. 
References
  • ADAMS, LYNN; PETER GAZE, ROD HITCHMOUGH, SUSAN KEALL & IVAN ROGERS 2017. A survey of Puangiangi with recommendations for restoration of the island’s lizard fauna. BioGecko (4): 26-34
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cree, Alison and Kelly M. Hare 2016. Reproduction and Life History of New Zealand Lizards. in: Chapple, D.G. (ed). New Zealand Lizards. Springer, pp. 169-206 - get paper here
  • 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 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • Robb J 1980. Three new species of gekkonid lizards, genera Hoplodactylus Fitzinger and Heteropholis Fischer, from New Zealand. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND RECORDS 1(19) 1980: 305-310
  • Robb,J. 1980. New Zealand Amphibians and Reptiles in Colour. Collins, Auckland, 128 pp.
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • 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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