Editing Gonatodes

{{Short description|Genus of dwarf geckos}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image             = Variegated (Brilliant South American) gecko (Gonatodes ceciliae) male.jpg
| image_caption     = Male brilliant South American gecko (''Gonatodes ceciliae''), [[Trinidad]]
| taxon             = Gonatodes
| authority         = [[Fitzinger]], 1843<ref>"''Gonatodes'' ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.</ref><ref name =RDB>{{EMBL genus|genus=Gonatodes}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision       = 
34, see [[#Species|text]]
}}

'''''Gonatodes''''' is a [[genus]] of [[New World]] '''dwarf geckos''' of the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Sphaerodactylidae]].<ref>[[species:Tony Gamble|Gamble T]], [[species:Andrew M. Simons|Simons AM]], [[species:Guarino Rinaldi Colli|Colli GR]], [[species:Laurie J. Vitt|Vitt LJ]] (2008). "Tertiary climate change and the diversification of the Amazonian gecko genus ''Gonatodes'' (Sphaerodactylidae, Squamata)". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' '''46''': 269–277.</ref><ref>Gamble T, [[:fr:Aaron Matthew Bauer|Bauer AM]], [[species:Eli Greenbaum|Greenbaum E]], [[species:Todd R. Jackman|Jackman TR]] (2008). "Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards".  ''Journal of Biogeography'' '''35''': 88–104.</ref>

==Description==
The majority of the [[species]] in the genus ''Gonatodes'' are diurnally active, [[scansorial]], and [[sexually dichromatic]], with adult body size ([[snout–vent length]]) ranging from {{convert|28|to|65|mm|in|abbr=on}} for known species.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} 
<gallery mode="packed" heights="80">
File:Gonatodes humeralis 281628324.jpg|''[[Trinidad gecko|Gonatodes humeralis]]''
File:Gonatodes albogularis01a.jpeg|''[[Gonatodes albogularis]]''
File:Gonatodes concinnatus.JPG|''[[Gonatodes concinnatus]]'', [[Colombia]]
File:Ocellated gecko (Gonatodes ocellatus) male LTo.JPG|Male ocellated gecko ''Gonatodes ocellatus'', [[Little Tobago]]
File:Ocellated gecko (Gonatodes ocellatus) male LTo 2.JPG|Male ocellated gecko ''Gonatodes ocellatus'', [[Little Tobago]]
File:Ocellated gecko (Gonatodes ocellatus) female.JPG|Female ocellated gecko ''Gonatodes ocellatus'', [[Little Tobago]]
</gallery>

==Diet==
The diets of the various species of ''Gonatodes'' are composed mainly of very small arthropods.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==Reproduction==
[[Clutch (eggs)|Clutch]] size is one, with most species producing several clutches per year, and some utilizing communal egg-laying sites.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==Habitat==
Most species are humid tropical [[forest]] dwelling (some in warm lowlands, and others in somewhat cooler montane regions), with relatively fewer species utilizing more open, drier habitats at forest edge, tropical dry seasonal forest and scrub forest. Some species (usually those that use drier natural habitats) are able to utilize even more open human modified environments; in some cases including highly urbanized areas. ''Gonatodes'' usually spend most of their active hours perched anywhere from ground level to about 0.6 metres (2 feet) above ground, sometimes up to 2 or 3 metres (6.6 or 9.8 feet), on vertical or near vertical surfaces of tree trunks, tree stumps, logs and sometimes rocks (as well as on walls and house-posts for those that are able to use human altered environments). They seldom sit exposed to direct strong sunlight (they do not appear to bask), and most seem to prefer shade / filtered light with less exposure to direct sun light.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==Geographic range==
Species of ''Gonatodes'' are found in [[Central America]] including southern [[Mexico]], a few Caribbean Islands (including [[Cuba]], [[Hispaniola]], [[Jamaica]] and Union Island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines) and the northern part of [[South America]], including [[Peru]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Bolivia]], [[Guyana]], [[French Guiana]], [[Suriname]], parts of [[Brazil]], [[Venezuela]], the islands of [[Trinidad]] and [[Tobago]], and some of the small islands just off the coast of northern South America.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==Introduced species==
Human mediated introductions have occurred with ''Gonatodes caudiscutatus'' in the [[Galapagos Islands]] and ''G. albogularis'' in [[Florida]]. In addition, some species have been transplanted by human activity to various regions within the general range of the genus where the particular species did not previously exist.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==Species==
The following 34 species are recognized as being valid.<ref name=RDB/> Some [[subspecies]] are also listed.<!-- this is not a complete list of species it seems -->
*''[[Gonatodes albogularis]]'' <small>([[A.M.C. Duméril]] & [[Bibron]], 1836)</small> – white-throated clawed gecko, white-throated gecko, yellow-headed gecko
**''Gonatodes albogularis albogularis'' <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836)</small>
**''Gonatodes albogularis bodinii'' <small>[[species:Carlos Rivero-Blanco|Rivero-Blanco]], 1968</small>
**''Gonatodes albogularis notatus'' <small>([[Johannes Theodor Reinhardt|J.T. Reinhardt]] & [[Christian Frederik Lütken|Lütken]], 1862)</small>
*''[[Gonatodes alexandermendesi]]'' <small>[[species:Charles J. Cole|Cole]] & [[:fr:Philippe J. R. Kok|Kok]], 2006</small> 
*''[[Gonatodes annularis]]'' <small>[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1887</small> – annulated gecko
*''[[Gonatodes antillensis]]'' <small>([[Lidth de Jeude]], 1887)</small> – [[Antilles]] gecko, Venezuelan coastal clawed gecko
*''[[Gonatodes astralis]]'' <small>[[species:Walter E. Schargel|Schargel]] et al., 2010</small>
*''[[Gonatodes atricucullaris]]'' <small>[[Gladwyn Kingsley Noble|Noble]], 1921</small> – [[Cajamarca Region|Cajamarca]] gecko
*''[[Gonatodes castanae]]'' <small>[[species:Juan E. Carvajal-Cogollo|Carvajal-Cogollo]], [[species:Jorge E. Eguis-Avendaño|Eguis-Avendaño]] & [[species:Fabio Leonardo Meza-Joya|Meza-Joya]], 2020</small> – Castaño's Gecko
*''[[Gonatodes caudiscutatus]]'' <small>([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1859)</small> – shieldhead gecko
*''[[Gonatodes ceciliae]]'' <small>[[:es:Roberto Donoso-Barros|Donoso-Barros]], 1966</small> – brilliant clawed gecko, brilliant South American gecko
*''[[Gonatodes chucuri]]'' <small>[[species:Elson Meneses-Pelayo|Meneses-Pelayo]] & [[species:Juan Pablo Ramírez|Ramírez]], 2020</small> – Chucuri gecko
*''[[Gonatodes concinnatus]]'' <small>([[Arthur O'Shaughnessy|O'Shaughnessy]], 1881)</small> – [[Arthur O'Shaughnessy|O'Shaughnessy's]] gecko
*''[[Gonatodes daudini]]'' <small>[[Robert Powell (herpetologist)|Powell]] & [[species:Robert W. Henderson|Henderson]], 2005</small> – [[Grenadines]] clawed gecko, [[Union Island]] clawed gecko, Union Island gecko<ref name=EDR>[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkin, Michael]]; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Daudin, J.", p. 66; "Haseman", p. 117; "Peters, J.A.", p. 204).</ref>
*''[[Gonatodes eladioi]]'' <small>[[species:Francisco Paiva do Nascimento|Nascimento]], [[species:Teresa Cristina Sauer de Ávila-Pires|Ávila-Pires]] & [[Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha|Cunha]], 1987</small> – South American gecko
*''[[Gonatodes falconensis]]'' <small>[[:fr:Benjamin Shreve|Shreve]], 1947</small> – [[Estado Falcón]] gecko
*''[[Gonatodes hasemani]]'' <small>[[species:Lawrence Edmonds Griffin|Griffin]], 1917</small> – [[species:John Diederich Haseman|Haseman's]] gecko<ref name=EDR/>
*''[[Gonatodes humeralis]]'' <small>([[Alphone Guichenot|Guichenot]], 1855)</small> – South American clawed gecko, [[Trinidad]] gecko
*''[[Gonatodes infernalis]]'' <small>[[species:Gilson A. Rivas|Rivas]] & Schargel, 2008</small><!-- Zootaxa1925:39. -->
*''[[Gonatodes lichenosus]]'' <small>[[species:Fernando J.M. Rojas-Runjaic|Rojas-Runjaic]] et al., 2010</small> - [[Serranía del Perijá|Perijá]] lichen gecko
*''[[Gonatodes ligiae]]'' <small>Donoso-Barros, 1967</small>
*''[[Gonatodes machelae]]'' <small>Rivero-Blanco & Schargel, 2020</small>
*''[[Gonatodes nascimentoi]]'' <small>[[species:Marcelo José Sturaro|Sturaro]] & Ávila-Pires, 2011</small>
*''[[Gonatodes naufragus]]'' <small>Rivas et al., 2013</small> – [[Blanquilla Island|La Blanquilla]] clawed gecko
*''[[Gonatodes ocellatus]]'' <small>([[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1831)</small> – eyespot clawed gecko, eyespot gecko, ocellated gecko
*''[[Gonatodes petersi]]'' <small>Donoso-Barros, 1967</small> – [[James A. Peters|Peters']] gecko<ref name=EDR/>
*''[[Gonatodes purpurogularis]]'' <small>[[species:Luis Felipe Esqueda|Esqueda]], 2004</small>
*''[[Gonatodes rayito]]'' <small>Schargel, Rivas, [[species:Juan Elías García-Pérez|García-Pérez]], Rivero-Blanco, [[species:Paul T. Chippindale|Chippindale]] & [[species:Matthew K. Fujita|Fujita]], 2017</small>
*''[[Gonatodes riveroi]]'' <small>Sturaro & Ávila-Pires, 2011</small>
*''[[Gonatodes rozei]]'' <small>Rivero-Blanco & Schargel, 2012</small> - Roze's gecko
*''[[Gonatodes seigliei]]'' <small>Donoso-Barros, 1966</small> – [[Estado Sucre]] gecko
*''[[Gonatodes superciliaris]]'' <small>[[species:César L. Barrio Amorós|Barrio-Amorós]] & [[Charles Brewer-Carías|Brewer-Carías]], 2008</small> - Sarisariñama forest gecko
*''[[Gonatodes taniae]]'' <small>[[Janis Roze|Roze]], 1963</small> – [[Aragua|Estado Aragua]] gecko, ring-necked clawed gecko
*''[[Gonatodes tapajonicus]]'' <small>[[:fr:Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues|Rodrigues]], 1980</small> – [[Pará]] gecko
*''[[Gonatodes timidus]]'' <small>[[:fr:Philippe J. R. Kok|Kok]], 2011</small><ref>[[:fr:Philippe J. R. Kok|Kok PJR]] (2011). "A new species of the genus ''Gonatodes'' Fitzinger, 1843 (Reptilia: Sphaerodactylidae) from central Guyana, northern South America". ''Zootaxa'' '''3018''': 1-12. (''Gonatodes timidus'', new species).</ref>
*''[[Gonatodes vittatus]]'' <small>([[Martin Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein]], 1856)</small> – striped clawed gecko, [[Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann|Wiegmann's]] striped gecko

''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Gonatodes''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
{{Wikispecies|Gonatodes}}
*[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger L]] (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Gonatodes'', new genus, pp.&nbsp;18, 90–91). (in [[Latin]]).

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[[Category:Reptiles of Guyana]]
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[[Category:Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger]]