Goniurosaurus toyamai GRISMER, OTA & TANAKA, 1994

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Higher Taxa	Eublepharidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Iheyajima Leopard Gecko
Synonym	Goniurosaurus kuroiwae toyamai GRISMER, OTA & TANAKA 1994 Goniurosaurus kuroiwae orientalis — OTA 1989: 230 (part.) Goniurosaurus kuroiwae toyamai GRISMER et al. 1994 Goniurosaurus toyamai — DICKHOFF 2004 Goniurosaurus toyamai — SEUFER et al. 2005 Goniurosaurus toyamai — ZIEGLER et al. 2008 Goniurosaurus toyamai — KURITA et al. 2017
Distribution	Japan (Iheyajima) Type locality: Iheyajima island, Okinawa, Japan
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: KUZ 9983
Diagnosis
Comment	This species is critically endangered. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after Masanao Toyama, a Japanese herpetologist.
References	Aizawa, Masaya 2021. Heimlich, still und schön - Okinawa-Krallengeckos. DATZ 2021 (5): 14-23 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Dickhoff, A. 2004. Ein Tiger im Terrarium - Haltung und Nachzucht von Goniurosaurus araneus (GRISMER, VIETS & BOYLE 1999). Draco 5 (18): 76-81 - get paper here Grismer L L. Ota H. Tanaka S. 1994. Phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, with description of a new subspecies. Zoological Science (TOKYO) 11 (2): 319-335 - get paper here Grismer, L. Lee 2002. Goniurosaurus: Ancient Gekkos of the Far East. Gekko 3 (1): 22-28 Janssen, Jordi & Chris R. Shepherd 2019. Trade in Endangered and Critically Endangered Japanese Herpetofauna Endemic to The Nansei Islands Warrants Increased Protection. Current Herpetology Feb 2019 Vol. 38, No. 1: 99-109 - get paper here Kurita T, Honda M, Toda M. 2017. Species delimitation and biogeography of the Ryukyu ground geckos, Goniurosaurus kuroiwae ssp. (Squamata: Eublepharidae), by use of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 2017;00:1–14 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - 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 Prival, D. 2002. Five days in Chiapas (or why I will never be invited to go herping in Chiapas ever again). Sonoran Herpetologist 15 (8):86-88. - get paper here Seufer, H.; Y. Kaverkin & A. Kirschner (eds.) 2005. Die Lidgeckos. Kirschner und Seufer Verlag, 238 pp. Wang, Ying-Yong; Jian-Huan Yang, and L. Lee Grismer 2013. A New Species of Goniurosaurus (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from Libo, Guizhou Province, China. Herpetologica 69 (2): 214-226. - get paper here Wang, Ying-Yong; Jian-Huan Yang, and Rong-Feng Cui 2010. A NEW SPECIES OF GONIUROSAURUS (SQUAMATA: EUBLEPHARIDAE) FROM YINGDE, GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA. Herpetologica 66 (2): 229 - get paper here Ziegler, T.; Truong, N.Q.; Schmitz, A.; Stenke, R. & Rösler, H. 2008. A new species of Goniurosaurus from Cat Ba Island, Hai Phong, northern Vietnam (Squamata: Eublepharidae). Zootaxa 1771: 16–30 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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