Checklist of Lizards of Ecuador 



ANGUIDAE (1) 



Diploglossus monotropis (Kuhl, 1820) 

 Original name: Scincus monotropis mihi 

 Type(s): Not located. 

 Type locality: Not reported. 

 Distribution: Western tropical. 



GEKKONTDAE (21) 



Gonatod.es caudiscutatus (Giinther, 1859b) 

 Original name: Gymnodactylus caudiscutatus 

 Type(s): Syntypes (4): BMNH 1946.9.7.6-9 

 Type locality: Andes of western Ecuador. 

 Systematics: Kluge (1995). 

 Distribution: Western tropical, Galapagos. 



Gonatodes concinnatus (O' Shaughnessy, 1881) 

 Original name: Goniodactylus concinnatus 

 Type(s): Syntypes (3): BMNH 1946.9.7.10-12 

 Type locality: Canelos, [Provincia Pastaza], Ecuador. 

 Systematics: Kluge (1995). 

 Distribution: Eastern tropical. 



Gonatodes humeralis (Guichenot, 1855) 



Original name: Gymnodactylus humeralis 



Type(s): Syntypes (6): MHNP 6745 



Type locality: RioUcayali, Mission de Sarayacu [Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador], Peru. 



Systematics: Avila-Pires (1995), Kluge (1995). 



Distribution: Eastern tropical. 



Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnes, 1818) 



Original name: Gecko mabouia 



Type(s): Lectotype: MHNP 6573 Pumeril and Dumeril, 1851) 



Type locality: Antilles; restricted to St. Vincent Island, Lesser Antilles, by Stejneger 



(1904). 



Systematics: Avila-Pires (1995), Kluge (1969). 



Distribution: Eastern tropical. 



