| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) | 
        | Subspecies |  | 
        | Common Names | E: Palau lsland Dtella | 
        | Synonym | Hemidactylus (Peropus) brevipalmatus PETERS 1874: 159 Gehyra brevipalmata — BOULENGER 1885: 150
 Peropus brevipalmatus — CHRAPLIWY 1961
 Gehyra brevipalmata — KLUGE 1993
 Gehyra brevipalmata — RÖSLER 2000: 80
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        | Distribution | Indonesia, Pelew = Palau Islands 
 Type locality: “Pelewinseln” [= Palau Islands]
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        | Reproduction | oviparous | 
        | Types | Holotype: ZMB 7927 (Tiedemann et al. 1994 regarded NMW 19367 as holotype) | 
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        | Comment | Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. | 
        | Etymology | Named after Latin “brevis, -e” = short and Latin palm = hand, palm, or palm-tree, and palmata = palmlike, although Peters does not explicitly explain the name. | 
        | References | 
            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 hereCrombie, Ronald I. and Gregory K. Pregill 1999. A Checklist of the Herpetofauna of the Palau Islands (Republic of Belau), Oceania. Herpetological Monographs 13: 29-80  - get paper hereGemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248  - get paper hereGoldberg, S.R. 2018. Gehyra brevipalmata (Palau Gecko) Reproduction. Herpetological Review 49 (1): 117-118.  - get paper herePeters, W. 1875. Eine mittheilung von Hrn. Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1874: 128—140  - get paper herePeters,W.H.C. 1874. Über neue Reptilien (Peropus, Agama, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Typhlops, Heterolepis) der herpetologischen Sammlung des Berliner zoologischen Museums. M. Ber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 159-164  - get paper hereRösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Tiedemann,F.; Häupl,M. & Grillitsch,H. 1994. Katalog der Typen der herpetologischen Sammlung nach dem Stand vom 1. Jänner 1994. Teil II: Reptilia. Kat. wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 10 (Vertebrata 4): 1-110 Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732  - get paper hereZUG, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 pp.  - get paper here | 
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