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(Redirected from Pygopodomorpha) Superfamily of lizards

Pygopodoidea
Temporal range: Albian – Present, 110–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Eastern stone gecko (Diplodactylus vittatus)
Pink-tailed worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: Gekkonomorpha
Infraorder: Gekkota
Clade: Pygopodomorpha
Vidal & Hedges, 2009
Superfamily: Pygopodoidea
Gray, 1845
Families

Pygopodoidea is a gecko superfamily and the only taxon in the gekkotan subclade Pygopodomorpha. The clade includes three Australasian families: Diplodactylidae (stone geckos), Carphodactylidae (knob-tailed geckos), and Pygopodidae (flap-footed geckos). Traditional gekkotan systematics had considered Diplodactylidae and Carphodactylidae as subfamilies of the family Gekkonidae, but recent molecular work have placed Pygopodidae within Gekkonidae making it paraphyletic. These analyses have shown support of Pygopodidae and Carphodactylidae being sister taxa, with Diplodactylidae occupying a basal position in Pygopodoidea.

Below is a taxonomic list of pygopodoid genera in taxonomic order:

  • Pygopodomorpha (Vidal & Hedges, 2009)
    • Pygopodoidea (Gray, 1845)
      • Diplodactylidae (Underwood, 1954) – Stone Geckos
        • Crenadactylus (Dixon & Kluge, 1964) – Clawless Gecko
        • Nebulifera (Oliver, Bauer, Greenbaum, Jackman & Hobbie, 2012) – Robust Velvet Gecko
        • Amalosia (Wells & Wellington, 1984) – Amalosian Velvet Geckos
        • Oedura (J. E. Gray, 1842) – Oeduran Velvet Geckos
        • Hesperoedura (Oliver, Bauer, Greenbaum, Jackman & Hobbie, 2012) – Reticulated Velvet Gecko
        • Strophurus (Fitzinger, 1843) – Spiny-tailed Geckos
        • Diplodactylus (Gray, 1832) – Stone Geckos
        • Rhynchoedura (Günther, 1867) – Beaked Geckos
        • Lucasium (Wermuth, 1965) – Ground Geckos
        • Toropuku (Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty, 2011) – New Zealand Striped Gecko
        • Naultinus (Gray, 1842) – New Zealand Green Geckos
        • Tukutuku (Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty, 2011) – Harlequin Gecko
        • Dactylocnemis (Steindachner, 1867) – Pacific Geckos
        • Mokopirirakau (Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty, 2011) – Forest Geckos
        • Woodworthia (Garman, 1901) – Woodworth's Geckos
        • Hoplodactylus (Fitzinger, 1843) – Hoplodactyl Geckos
        • Pseudothecadactylus (Brongersma, 1936) – Cave Geckos
        • Bavayia (Roux, 1913) – Bavay's Geckos
        • Paniegekko (Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier & Whitaker, 2012) – Panié du Massif Gecko
        • Dierogekko (Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier & Whitaker, 2006) – New Caledonian Striped Geckos
        • Oedodera (Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier & Whitaker, 2006) – Marbled Gecko
        • Correlophus (Guichenot, 1866) – Correloph Geckos
        • Rhacodactylus (Fitzinger, 1843) – Rhacodactyl Geckos
        • Mniarogekko (Bauer, Whitaker, Sadlier & Jackman, 2012) – Mossy Geckos
        • Eurydactylodes (Wermuth, 1965) – New Caledonian Chameleon Geckos
      • Carphodactylidae (Kluge, 1967) – Knob-tailed Geckos
        • Phyllurus (Schinz, 1822) – Phyllur Leaf-tailed Geckos
        • Saltuarius (Couper, Covacevich & Moritz, 1993) – Saltuar Leaf-tailed Geckos
        • Orraya (Couper, Covacevich, Schneider & Hoskin, 2000) – McIlwraith Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Carphodactylus (Günther, 1897) – Australian Chameleon Gecko
        • Uvidicolus (Oliver & Bauer, 2011) – Border Thick-tailed Gecko
        • Underwoodisaurus (Wermuth, 1965) – Underwood's Geckos
        • Nephrurus (Günther, 1876) – Knob-tailed Geckos
      • Pygopodidae (Gray, 1845) – Flap-footed Geckos
        • Delma (Gray, 1831) – Delmas
        • Lialis (Gray, 1835) – Lialis
        • Ophidiocephalus (Lucas & Frost, 1897) – Bronzeback Snake-lizard
        • Pletholax (Cope, 1864) – Slender Slider
        • Aprasia (Gray, 1839) – Worm Geckos
        • Paradelma (Kinghorn, 1926) – Brigalow Scalyfoot
        • Pygopus (Merrem, 1820) – Scalyfeet

References

  1. Han, D., K. Zhou, & A. M. Bauer. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards inferred from c-mos nuclear DNA sequences and a new classification of the Gekkota. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 353– 368.
  2. Gamble, T., A. M. Bauer, E. Greenbaum, & T.R. Jackman. 2008. Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards. Journal of Biogeography 35: 88-104
  3. Pyron, R; Burbrink, Frank T; Wiens, John J (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13: 93. Bibcode:2013BMCEE..13...93P. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
  4. Zheng, Yuchi; Wiens, John J. (2016). "Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94 (Pt B): 537–547. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.009. PMID 26475614.
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