Goniurosaurus

Goniurosaurus is a genus of geckos in the family Eublepharidae. The genus contains 27 species. Members species are known by various common names including cave geckos, ground geckos, leopard geckos, and tiger geckos. Members of this genus are found in China, Japan, and Vietnam. For this reason they are also known commonly as Asian geckos.

Goniurosaurus
Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae) in Ōgimi, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Gekkota
Family:	Eublepharidae
Genus:	Goniurosaurus Barbour, 1908
Species
27 recognized species, see article.

Diet

Geckos of the genus Goniurosaurus mainly feed on small insects.

Species

The following 27 species are recognized as being valid.^[1][2]

They can be divided into four species groups.

luii group:

• Goniurosaurus araneus Grismer et al., 1999 – Vietnamese leopard gecko
• Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis Grismer et al., 2002
• Goniurosaurus catbaensis Ziegler, Nguyen, Schmitz, Stenke & Rösler, 2008 – Cat Ba leopard gecko
• Goniurosaurus chengzheng Zhu, Li & He in Zhu et al., 2021 – Chengzheng cave gecko
• Goniurosaurus gezhi Zhu, He & Li, 2020^[3]
• Goniurosaurus huuliensis Orlov et al., 2008
• Goniurosaurus luii Grismer et al., 1999
• Goniurosaurus liboensis Y. Wang et al., 2013
• Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum Yang & Chan, 2015 – Kadoories's cave gecko
• Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis Yang & Chan, 2015 – Guangxi cave gecko

lichtenfelderi group:

• Goniurosaurus hainanensis Barbour, 1908
• Goniurosaurus kwanghua Zhu & He, 2020
• Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi (Mocquard, 1897) – Lichtenfelder's gecko
• Goniurosaurus sinensis Zhou, Peng, Hou & Yuan, 2019
• Goniurosaurus zhoui Zhou, N. Wang, Chen & Liang, 2018 – Zhou's leopard gecko

kuroiwae group:

• Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Namiye, 1912) – Kuroiwa's ground gecko
• Goniurosaurus nebulozonatus Kurita & Toda, 2024
• Goniurosaurus orientalis (Maki, 1931) – spotted ground gecko
• Goniurosaurus sengokui Honda & Ota, 2017 – Sengoku's gecko
• Goniurosaurus splendens (Nakamura & Uéno, 1959) – banded ground gecko
• Goniurosaurus toyamai Grismer et al., 1994 – Iheyajima leopard gecko
• Goniurosaurus yamashinae (Okada, 1936) – Yamashina's ground gecko

yingdeensis group:

• Goniurosaurus gollum Qi et al., 2020 – Gollum leopard gecko
• Goniurosaurus varius Qi et al., 2020
• Goniurosaurus wangshu Zhu et al., 2022 – Wangshu's leopard gecko
• Goniurosaurus yingdeensis Y. Wang et al., 2010 – Yingde leopard gecko
• Goniurosaurus zhelongi Y. Wang et al., 2014 – Zhe-long's leopard gecko

Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Goniurosaurus.