Gonatodes is a genus of New World dwarf geckos of the family Sphaerodactylidae.

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  for known species.

Diet
The diets of the various species of Gonatodes are composed mainly of very small arthropods.

Reproduction
Clutch size is one, with most species producing several clutches per year, and some utilizing communal egg-laying sites.

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.

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 cost of northern South America.

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.

Species
The following 34 species are recognized as being valid. Some subspecies are also listed.
Gonatodes albogularis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836) – white-throated clawed gecko, white-throated gecko, yellow-headed gecko
Gonatodes albogularis albogularis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836)
Gonatodes albogularis bodinii Rivero-Blanco, 1968
Gonatodes albogularis notatus (J.T. Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862)
Gonatodes alexandermendesi Cole & Kok, 2006 
Gonatodes annularis Boulenger, 1887 – annulated gecko
Gonatodes antillensis (Lidth de Jeude, 1887) – Antilles gecko, Venezuelan coastal clawed gecko
Gonatodes astralis Schargel et al., 2010
Gonatodes atricucullaris Noble, 1921 – Cajamarca gecko
Gonatodes castanae Carvajal-Cogollo, Eguis-Avendaño & Meza-Joya, 2020 – Castaño's Gecko
Gonatodes caudiscutatus (Günther, 1859) – shieldhead gecko
Gonatodes ceciliae Donoso-Barros, 1966 – brilliant clawed gecko, brilliant South American gecko
Gonatodes chucuri Meneses-Pelayo & Ramírez, 2020 – Chucuri gecko
Gonatodes concinnatus (O'Shaughnessy, 1881) – O'Shaughnessy's gecko
Gonatodes daudini Powell & Henderson, 2005 – Grenadines clawed gecko, Union Island clawed gecko, Union Island gecko
Gonatodes eladioi Nascimento, Ávila-Pires & Cunha, 1987 – South American gecko
Gonatodes falconensis Shreve, 1947 – Estado Falcón gecko
Gonatodes hasemani Griffin, 1917 – Haseman's gecko
Gonatodes humeralis (Guichenot, 1855) – South American clawed gecko, Trinidad gecko
Gonatodes infernalis Rivas & Schargel, 2008
Gonatodes lichenosus Rojas-Runjaic et al., 2010 - Perijá lichen gecko
Gonatodes ligiae Donoso-Barros, 1967
Gonatodes machelae Rivero-Blanco & Schargel, 2020
Gonatodes nascimentoi Sturaro & Ávila-Pires, 2011
Gonatodes naufragus Rivas et al., 2013 – La Blanquilla clawed gecko
Gonatodes ocellatus (Gray, 1831) – eyespot clawed gecko, eyespot gecko, ocellated gecko
Gonatodes petersi Donoso-Barros, 1967 – Peters' gecko
Gonatodes purpurogularis Esqueda, 2004
Gonatodes rayito Schargel, Rivas, García-Pérez, Rivero-Blanco, Chippindale & Fujita, 2017
Gonatodes riveroi Sturaro & Ávila-Pires, 2011
Gonatodes rozei Rivero-Blanco & Schargel, 2012 - Roze's gecko
Gonatodes seigliei Donoso-Barros, 1966 – Estado Sucre gecko
Gonatodes superciliaris Barrio-Amorós & Brewer-Carías, 2008 - Sarisariñama forest gecko
Gonatodes taniae Roze, 1963 – Estado Aragua gecko, ring-necked clawed gecko
Gonatodes tapajonicus Rodrigues, 1980 – Pará gecko
Gonatodes timidus Kok, 2011
Gonatodes vittatus (Lichtenstein, 1856) – striped clawed gecko, Wiegmann's striped gecko

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

References

Further reading

Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Gonatodes, new genus, pp. 18, 90–91). (in Latin).

 
Vertebrates of Guyana
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
딸보도마뱀붙이속(Gonatodes)은 땅딸이도마뱀붙이과에 속한, 난쟁이 도마뱀붙이류의 일속이다.

상세
딸보도마뱀붙이속의 대부분의 종은 주행성이고, 수목성(:en:Arboreal locomotion)이며, 성적 이색성을 띄며, 성체의 체장(주둥이-항문 길이)은 28 - 65 mm 에 달한다.

식성
딸보도마뱀붙이속은 대부분 굉장히 작은 절지류를 먹는다.

번식
알무더기는 하나의 알로 이루어지며, 대부분의 종은 해마다 두세 번 알을 낳고, 몇몇은 공동 산란 장소를 활용한다.

서식지
대부분의 종은 습한 열대삼림에, 몇몇은 따뜻한 저지대에, 나머지는 시원한 지역에 서식하며, 소수의 종들은 더 개방된, 삼림 경계 지역의 좀 더 건조한 서식지, 열대 건조 계절 삼림, 덤불 우림에 서식한다. 어떤 종들(대개 좀 더 건조한 곳에 서식하는 종들)은 좀 더 넓게 트인 사람의 손길이 닿은 환경에서조차, 몇몇 경우에는 고도로 도시화된 지역에 서식한다. 딸보도마뱀속의 종들은 활동 시간의 대부분을 지면에서 지면 위 0.6m (때로는 2 - 3m) 에 이르는 곳의 나무줄기, 그루터기, 통나무, 때때로는 바위, 혹은 인간 거주지에 있다면 벽과 집 따위의 앉아있을만한 곳에 수직으로, 혹은 거의 수직으로 어디든 앉아있다. 강렬한 햇빛을 받아가며 앉는 일은 드물고, 햇볕을 쬐러 나오지는 않으며, 대부분 그늘이나 직사광선이 덜 내리쬐는 곳을 선호한다.

지리학적 분포
딸보도마뱀붙이속의 종은 멕시코 남부, 쿠바섬, 히스파니올라섬, 자메이카, 그레나딘 제도의 유니언섬, 등의 몇몇 카리브해의 섬들 따위의 중앙아메리카, 페루, 콜롬비아, 에쿠아도르, 볼리비아, 기아나, 프랑스령 기아나, 수리남, 브라질의 일부, 베네수엘라, 트리니다드 토바고의 섬들, 남아메리카 북부 해안가의 몇몇 섬들 따위의 남아메리카 북부에서 발견된다.

도입종
한 종은 갈라파고스 제도에, 한 종은 플로리다주에 사람을 통해 도입되었다. 게다가 어떤 종들은 인류행동(human activity)을 통해 대략적인 범위 안의, 이전에는 분포하지 않았던 다양한 지역에 옮겨졌다.

하위
다음의 31 개 종이 유효하다고 인정받았다. 몇몇 아종 또한 목록에 올랐다.
 Gonatodes albogularis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836) – yellow-headed gecko
 Gonatodes albogularis albogularis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836)
 Gonatodes albogularis bodinii Rivero-Blanco, 1968
 Gonatodes albogularis notatus (J.T. Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862)
 Gonatodes alexandermendesi Cole & Kok, 2006
 Gonatodes annularis Boulenger, 1887 – annulated gecko
 Gonatodes antillensis (Lidth de Jeude, 1887) – Antilles gecko
 Gonatodes astralis Schargel et al., 2010
 Gonatodes atricucullaris Noble, 1921 – Cajamarca gecko
 Gonatodes caudiscutatus (Günther, 1859) – shieldhead gecko
 Gonatodes ceciliae Donoso-Barros, 1966 – brilliant South American gecko
 Gonatodes concinnatus (O'Shaughnessy, 1881) – O'Shaughnessy's gecko
 Gonatodes daudini Powell & Henderson, 2005 – Grenadines clawed gecko, Union Island gecko
 Gonatodes eladioi Nascimento et al., 1987 – South American gecko
 Gonatodes falconensis Shreve, 1947 – Estado Falcon gecko
 Gonatodes hasemani Griffin, 1917 – Haseman's gecko
 Gonatodes humeralis (Guichenot, 1855) – Trinidad gecko
 Gonatodes infernalis Rivas & Schargel, 2008
 Gonatodes lichenosus Rojas-Runjaic et al., 2010 - Perijá lichen gecko
 Gonatodes ligiae Donoso-Barros, 1967
 Gonatodes nascimentoi Sturaro & Ávila-Pires, 2011
 Gonatodes naufragus Rivas et al., 2013
 Gonatodes ocellatus (Gray, 1831) – eyespot gecko
 Gonatodes petersi Donoso-Barros, 1967 – Peters's gecko
 Gonatodes purpurogularis Esqueda, 2004
Gonatodes rayito Schargel, Rivas, Garcia-Perez, Rivero-Blanco, Chippindale, & Fujita, 2017
Gonatodes riveroi Sturaro & Avila-Pires, 2011
Gonatodes rozei Rivero-Blanco & Schargel, 2012 - Roze’s gecko
 Gonatodes seigliei Donoso-Barros, 1966 – Estados Sucre gecko
 Gonatodes superciliaris Barrio-Amorós & Brewer-Carías, 2008 - Sarisariñama Forest gecko
 Gonatodes taniae Roze, 1963 – Estado Aragua gecko
 Gonatodes tapajonicus Rodrigues, 1980 – Pará gecko
 Gonatodes timidus Kok, 2011
 Gonatodes vittatus (Lichtenstein, 1856) – Wiegmann's striped gecko

주의사항: 삽입어구의 이명 명명자(:en:Binominal nomenclature)는 원래 해당 종을 속(Gonatodes)과는 다른 속에 속한 것으로 기술했을지도 모른다.

각주

참고 문헌 
 Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Gonatodes, new genus, pp. 18, 90-91). (in Latin).

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