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Gekko yakuensis MATSUI & OKADA, 1968

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Yakushima Gecko 
SynonymGekko yakuensis MATSUI & OKADA 1968
Gekko yakuensis — KLUGE 1993
Gekko yakuensis — OTA 1989: 235
Gekko yakuensis — RÖSLER 2000: 82
Gekko (Japonigekko) yakuensis — WOOD et al. 2019
Gekko (Japonigekko) yakuensis — WOOD et al. 2020 
DistributionJapan (Kyushu, NE Ryukyu Islands: Yakushima, Tanegashima)

Type locality: Anbo, Yakushima, Ryukyu Archipelago.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: JSC *** #522, adult female (cited in original description like this, with asterisks etc., Japan Snake Center, Yabuduka-cho Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (891 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHybridization: Gekko hokouensis occasionally hybridizes with Gekko yakuensis (Toda et al. 2001, Okamoto et al.: Genbank sequences). See also Gekko hokouensis. 
References
  • Goris, R.C. & Maeda, N. 2004. Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan. Krieger, Malabar, 285 pp.
  • Matsui, T., and Y. Okada. 1968. A new species of Gekko found in Yakushima, one of the small island [sic] south of Kyushu. Acta Herpetologica Japonica, 3:1-4 - get paper here
  • 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 S. 1998. Examination of gecko specimens collected by Mr. Yasuhiko Shibata around Osumi peninsula in the southern Kyushu (In Japanese with English abstract.). Hibakagaku 185: 7–13.
  • Okada S. 1998. A new record of Gekko yakuensis from NichinanKaigan in Miyazaki Prefecture. (In Japanese with English abstract.). Hibakagaku 185: 1–5
  • Okamoto, K., Tominaga, A., & Toda, M. 2023. Demographic imbalance in the hybrid zone led to asymmetric gene flow between two closely related geckos, Gekko hokouensis and Gekko yakuensis (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blad092 - get paper here
  • Ota, Hidetoshi 1989. A review of the geckos (Lacertilia: Reptilia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago and Taiwan. in: Matsui et al., eds; Current Herpetology in East Asia: Proceedings of the Second Japan-China Herpetological Symposium Kyoto, July 1988: 222-261 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Shibata Y. 1981. A new record of the Gekkonid lizard Gekko yakuensis from Tanega-shima Island, Kyushu, Japan (Reptilia: Sauria). (In Japanese with English abstract.). Occasional Paper of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 1: 149–154
  • Takeuchi, Hirohiko and Mamoru Toda 2006. A new record of Gekko yakuensis from Magejima Island of the Osumi Group, Japan. Bulletin of the Herpetological Society of Japan 2006(1):26-27. - get paper here
  • Toda, M.; Okada, S.; Ota, H.; Hikida, T. 2001. Biochemical assessment of evolution and taxonomy of the morphologically poorly diverged geckos, Gekko yakuensis and G. hokouensis (Reptilia: Squamata) in Japan, with special reference to their occasional hybridization. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 73 (10: 153-165 - get paper here
  • Toda, Mamoru and Tsutomu Hikida 2011. Possible Incursions of Gekko hokouensis (Reptilia: Squamata) into Non-Native Area: An Example from Yakushima Island of the Northern Ryukyus, Japan. Current Herpetology 30 (1): 33-39 - 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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