Gekko tawaensis OKADA, 1956

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Tawa Gecko
Synonym	Gekko tawaensis OKADA 1956: 239 Gekko tawaensis — NAKAMURA & UÉNO 1963: 93 Gekko tawaensis — WERMUTH 1965: 41 Gekko tawaensis — KLUGE 1993 Gekko tawaensis — RÖSLER 2000: 82 Gekko (Japonigekko) tawaensis — WOOD et al. 2019 Gekko (Japonigekko) tawaensis — WOOD et al. 2020
Distribution	Japan (Shikoku, Provinces Kagawa, Kagawa) Type locality: Tawa, Nagao-machi, Okawa-gun, Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: not given.
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: This species appears to be synonymous to Gekko japonicus as the two species hybridize readily.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Goris, R.C. & Maeda, N. 2004. Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan. Krieger, Malabar, 285 pp. 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 Nakamura K & Uéno SI 1963. Japanese Reptiles and Amphibians in Colour [in Japanese]. Hoikusha, Osaka 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 Okada, Sumio;Okawa, Hiroshi 1994. Gekko tawaensis in Hiroshima and Yamaguchi Prefectures. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 15 (4): 141-142 Okada, Y. 1956. A new species of gekko from Shikoku, Japan. Annotaiones Zoologicae Japonenses, 29: 239-241. Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Shibaike, Y. et al. 2009. Chromosome Evolution in the Lizard Genus Gekko (Gekkonidae, Squamata, Reptilia) in the East Asian Islands. Cytogenet Genome Res 127: 182-190 - get paper here Toda, M., Hikida, T., Okada, S. & Ota, H. 2003. Contrasting patterns of genetic variation in the two sympatric geckos Gekko tawaensis and G. japonicus (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Japan, as revealed by allozyme analyses. Heredity (Edinb). 90, 90–97 (2003) - get paper here Toda, M.; Okada, S.; Hikida, T.; Ota, H. 2006. Extensive natural hybridization between two geckos, Gekko tawaensis and Gekko japonicus (Reptilia: Squamata), throughout their broad sympatric area. Biochemical Genetics 44(1-2):1-17. - 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 YANG, JIAN-HUAN; YING-YONG WANG, TIAN-DU ZHANG, YAN-JUN SUN & SHI-SHI LIN 2012. Genetic and morphological evidence on the species validity of Gekko melli Vogt, 1922, with notes on its diagnosis and range extension (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 3505: 67–74 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://homepage3.nifty.com/japrep/gekko/gekko/text/etawa.htm Google images

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