Goggia

For the Italian alpine ski racer, see Sofia Goggia.

Goggia, also known commonly as dwarf leaf-toed geckos or pygmy geckos, is a genus of African geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae.^[1]

Goggia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Sarcopterygii
Clade:	Tetrapodomorpha
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Family:	Gekkonidae
Subfamily:	Uroplatinae
Genus:	Goggia Bauer, Good & Branch, 1997
Species
Ten recognized species, see article.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Goggia are found in southern Africa.^[1]

Species

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

• Goggia braacki (Good, Bauer & Branch, 1996) – Braack's dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia essexi (Hewitt, 1925) – Essex's dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia gemmula (Bauer, Branch & Good, 1996) – Richtersveld dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia hewitti (Branch, Bauer & Good, 1995) – Hewitt's dwarf leaf-toed gecko^[3]
• Goggia hexapora (Branch, Bauer & Good, 1995) – Cedarberg dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia incognita Heinicke, Turk & Bauer, 2017
• Goggia lineata (Gray, 1838) – striped dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia matzikamaensis Heinicke, Turk & Bauer, 2017
• Goggia microlepidota (V. FitzSimons, 1939) – small-scaled dwarf leaf-toed gecko
• Goggia rupicola (V. FitzSimons, 1938) – Namaqualand dwarf leaf-toed gecko^[1]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was original described in a genus other than Goggia.