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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Gekkonidae (geckos)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Tetrapoda (four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Reptilia (reptiles) > Romeriida > Diapsida > Lepidosauromorpha > Lepidosauria > Squamata (lizards and snakes)

Genera native to southern Africa

Afroedura (flat geckos)

 

Afrogecko (leaf-tailed geckos)

 

Chondrodactylus (ground geckos - part)

 

Colopus (ground geckos - part)

 

 

Cryptactites

One species in southern Africa - Cryptactites peringueyi (Péringuey's coastal leaf-toed gecko).

 

Elasmodactylus

 

 

Hemidactylus (tropical house geckos)

 

Homopholis (velvet geckos)

 

Lygodactylus (dwarf geckos)

 

Narudasia

One species in southern Africa - Narudasia festiva (Festive gecko)

 

Pachydactylus (thick-toed geckos)

 

Phelsuma (day geckos)

 

 

Ptenopus (barking geckos)

 

Rhoptropus (Namib day geckos)