Gekkota montage # 2 (Patreon)

A few more gekkotans have been added and things have been re-arranged. The animals now are (1) Pachydactylus, a gekkonid; (2) Spha'erodactylus the sphaerodactylid; (3) Carphodactylus, a carphodactylid; (4) Phyllodactylus, a phyllodactylid; (5) Diplodactylus, a diplodactylid; (6) Coleonyx, a eublepharid; (7) Hoplodactylus, another diplodactylid. and (8) Lialis, a pygopodid. 

The Hoplodactylus is specifically H. delcourti, the giant gecko known from a single taxiderm specimen discovered in France and generally (though I now think incorrectly) thought to be from New Zealand. It isn't known from the fossil record but it's such a great gecko that I couldn't resist including it. I reconstructed it based on photos of the holotype and the diagrams of it included in Bauer & Russell's 1986 paper on this animal. 

I think I shall still do a Uroplatus (an especially big one, like U. giganteus), in part because they're so spectacularly odd. Plus stem-taxa still needed. I think this is looking pretty good and hope you do too. Pretty sure I now have all the taxa I need for a cladogram.

This is all for The Big Book, but it will appear on TetZoo in time as well.