Just a heads up on some recent taxonomic changes in geckos.

Cosymbotus platyurus now Hemidactylus platyurus
Briba brasiliana
now Hemidactylus brasiliana
Carranza, S. and E. N. Arnold.  2006.  Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) elucidated using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 531-545.

Teratoscincus scincus keyserlingii now Teratoscincus keyserlingii
Macey, J. R., J.J. Fong, J. V. Kuehl, S. Shafiei, N. B. Ananjeva, T. J. Papenfuss, J. Boore. 2005.  The complete mitochondrial genome of a gecko and the phylogenetic position of the Middle Eastern Teratoscincus keyserlingiiMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36:188-193

Gymnodactylus geckoides amarali split into two speceis: Gymnodactylus amarali and Gymnodactylus carvalhoi (nov. sp.)
Vanzolini, R. E. 2005.  On Gymnodactylus amarali Barbour, 1925, with the description of a new speceis (Sauria, Gekkonidae).  A nais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 77: 595-611.
 
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