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Reeves's Tokay gecko
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Gekko
Species:	G. reevesii
Binomial name
Gekko reevesii (Gray, 1831)
Synonyms
Gecko reevesii Gray 1831 Gekko gecko Mertens, 1955 Gekko reevesii {{small Rösler et al., 2011}} Gekko (Gekko) reevesii Wood et al., 2019

Reeves's tokay gecko (Gekko reevesii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, reevesii, is in honor of English naturalist John Reeves.

Geographic range

G. reevesii is indigenous to China and northwestern Vietnam.

References

1. Nguyen, T.Q.; Cai, B.; Yang, J. (2021). "Gekko reevesii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T104717831A104718941. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T104717831A104718941.en. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
2. ^ Gekko reevesii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Reeves", p. 218).

Further reading

• Gray JE (1831). "A Synopsis of the Species of the Class Reptilia". In: Griffith E, Pidgeon E (1831). The Animal Kingdom arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c., with additional Descriptions of all the Species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, Volume the Ninth. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co. 481 pp. + supplement, 110 pp. (Gecko reevesii, new species, p. 48 of supplement).
• Mertens R (1955). "Über eine eigenartige Rasse des Tokehs (Gekko gecko) aus Ost-Pakistan ". Senckenbergiana Biologica 36: 21–24. (Gekko reevesii considered a synonym of Gekko gecko). (in German).
• Rösler H, Bauer AM, Heinicke MP, Greenbaum E, Jackman T, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T (2011). "Phylogeny, taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 with the revalidation of G. reevesii Gray, 1831 (Sauria: Gekkonidae)". Zootaxa 2989: 1–50. (Gekko reevesii revalidated at specific rank).

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