''Lepidodactylus'' is a large

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gecko Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates. They range from . Geckos are unique among lizards ...

s, commonly known as scaly-toed geckos and closely related to

house gecko ''Hemidactylus'' is a genus of the common gecko family, Gekkonidae. It has 194 described species, newfound ones being described every few years. These geckos are found in all the tropical regions of the world, extending into the subtropical parts ...

s or dtellas.

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Species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

in the genus ''Lepidodactylus'' are found from Southeast Asia to Indo-Australia and

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Species

There are 44 described species in this genus, which are considered valid. www.reptile-database.org. ‡ ''

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'': A taxon author (

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) in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Lepidodactylus''.

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The

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, ''browni'', is in honor of American herpetologist

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. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Lepidodactylus browni'', p. 41; ''L. christiani'', p. 54; ''L. gardineri'', p. 97; ''L. guppyi'', p. 112; ''L. herrei'', p. 122; ''L. manni'', p. 167; ''L. oorti'', p. 195; ''L. woodfordi'', p. 289). The specific name, ''christiani'', is in honor of U.S. Army Lieutenant Ralph L. Christian. The specific name, ''gardineri'', is in honor of British zoologist

John Stanley Gardiner John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist. Biography Stanley, as he was known, was the younger son of John Jephson Gardiner and Sarah McTier. He was born in Jordanstown (Belfast) in 1872 – two years after his brother Arthur. ...

. The specific name, ''guppyi'', is in honor of British naturalist Henry Brougham Guppy. The specific name, ''herrei'', is in honor of American ichthyologist

Albert William Herre Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (September 16, 1868 – January 16, 1962) was an American ichthyologist and lichenologist. Herre was born in 1868 in Toledo, Ohio. He was an alumnus of Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of ...

. The specific name, ''manni'', is in honor of American entomologist William Montana Mann. The specific name, ''oorti'', is in honor of Dutch ornithologist

Eduard Daniël van Oort Eduard Daniël van Oort (31 October 1876 in Barneveld, Gelderland – 21 September 1933 in Leiden) was a Dutch ornithologist. Oort was in charge of the bird collections at the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden; in 1915 he was made ...

. The specific name, ''woodfordi'', is in honor of British naturalist

Charles Morris Woodford Charles Morris Woodford (30 October 1852 – 4 October 1927) was a British naturalist and government minister active in the Solomon Islands. He became the first Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1896 (thr ...

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