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Gekko siamensis GROSSMANN & ULBER, 1990

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Siamese Green-eyed Gecko
G: Siamesischer Grünaugengecko 
SynonymGekko siamensis GROSSMANN & ULBER 1990
Gekko taylori OTA & NABHITABHATA 1991
Gekko siamensis — RÖSLER 1995: 121
Gekko siamensis — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 123
Gekko siamensis — RÖSLER 2000: 82
Gekko siamensis — KOBER 2013
Gekko (Gekko) siamensis — WOOD et al. 2019
Gekko (Gekko) siamensis — WOOD et al. 2020 
DistributionThailand (Nakhon Ratchasima)

Type locality: Thanon Khao Yai, km 22, Amphoe (district) Pak Chong Changwat (province), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (14° 32’ N, 101° 20’ E).

taylori: C Thailand; Type locality: Phetchabun, central Thailand  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MTD 27245 (= MTKD), Paratypes in ZFMK, MTKD
Holotype: TNRC 52-3794, adult male collected in Sept. 1977;Paratypes. Two adult males (KUZ 9322, 9961) and three adult females (KUZ 9321, 13165, OMNH Osaka R2999), all collected from central Thailand; exact sampling data unknown [taylori] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (406 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: Gekko taylori is a synonym of Gekko siamensis fide Kluge 2001 and Hikida 2015 (confirmed by O. Pauwels via S. Meiri, 2 Apr 2017, confirmed by H. Ota, same email thread). 
Etymologynamed after its type locality (Siam = Thailand).

G. taylori was named after Edward Harrison Taylor, 1889-1978 [obituary in Herp Review 10 (2): 47; see also Borrell 2013 for further biographical notes] 
References
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Montri Sumontha , & Olivier S. G. Pauwels 2008. A new red-eyed Gekko (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. Zootaxa 1750: 32-42 - get paper here
  • Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here
  • Chan-ard,T.; Grossmann,W.; Gumprecht,A. & Schulz,K. D. 1999. Amphibians and reptiles of peninsular Malaysia and Thailand - an illustrated checklist [bilingual English and German]. Bushmaster Publications, Würselen, Gemany, 240 pp. [book review in Russ. J Herp. 7: 87] - get paper here
  • Grossmann W; Ulber T 1990. Ein neuer Gecko aus Zentral-Thailand: Gekko siamensis sp. nov. (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Sauria 12 (3): 9-18 - get paper here
  • Grossmann, W. 2006. Grünaugengeckos, Gekko smithi & G. siamensis. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. - get paper here
  • Hikida, Tsutomu 2015. Book Review: A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 61(1): 41–51
  • Kluge, Arnold G. 2001. Gekkotan lizard taxonomy. Hamadryad 26 (1):i-ii, 1-209 - get paper here
  • MEESOOK, WORAWITOO; MONTRI SUMONTHA, NATTASUDA DONBUNDIT, OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS 2021. A new cave-dwelling Gekko (Gekko) from Lopburi Province, central Thailand (Squamata, Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 4969: 318–330 - get paper here
  • Ota H. NABHITABHATA J. 1991. A new species of Gekko (Gekkonidae: Squamata) from Thailand. Copeia 1991 (2): 503-509. - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Rösler, H. 2001. Studien am Tokeh: 1. Gekko gecko azhari MERTENS 1955 (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Gekkota 3: 33-46
  • Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp.
  • Skipwith, P.L., Bi, K., Oliver, P.M. 2019. Relicts and radiations: Phylogenomics of an Australasian lizard clade with east Gondwanan origins (Gekkota: Diplodactyloidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2019), doi: - 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
 
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