Crested Gecko - Taxonomy

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1866 as Corellophus ciliatus by the French zoologist Alphone Guichenot in an article entitled "Notice sur un nouveau genre de sauriens de la famille des geckotiens du Muséum de Paris" ("Notes on a new species of lizard in the gecko family") in the Mémoires de la Société Scientifique Naturelle de Chérbourg. It was later renamed Rhacodactylus ciliatus. However, a 2012 phylogenetic overview of the Rhacodactylus genus has found it to be paraphyletic; the Crested Gecko was thus split from Rhacodactylus and the original binomal name Corellophus ciliatus reinstated.