Gekkonidae

Aloufi, Abdulhadi A., Amr, Zuhair S., Abu Baker, Mohammad A. & Hamidan, Nashat, 2019, Diversity and conservation of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles and amphibians in Saudi Arabia, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 204) 13 (2), pp. 181-202 : 191

Family Gekkonidae

This family is represented by seven genera ( Bunopus , Cyrtopodion , Hemidactylus , Pseudoceramodactylus , Stenodactylus , Trigonodactylus , and Tropiocolotes ), including 18 species. The genus Stenodactylus was revised by Arnold (1980), Metallinou et al. (2012), and Nazarov et al. (2018), and it now includes four species. Šmíd et al. (2013) revised the genus Hemidactylus . They considered all previous records of Hemidactylus turcicus from Saudi Arabia as Hemidactylus granosus . Recently Šmíd et al. (2016) described two endemic species for Saudi Arabia: Hemidactylus alfarraji from Najran area and Hemidactylus asirensis from Asir Province. Hemidactylus mindiae is a new addition to the geckos of Saudi Arabia ( Aloufi and Amr 2015). Therefore, the number of Hemidactylus species known from Saudi Arabia is now eight. One record of Hemidactylus sinaitus Boulenger, 1885 from Seir Farasan Kebir should be considered with care (see Sindaco et al. 2014). Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei is known from a single locality in central Saudi Arabia ( Wilms et al. 2010).