An Annotated Type Catalogue of the Geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in the Zoological Museum, Berlin

Abstract

Abstract A complete catalogue is provided of the type specimens of geckos in the herpetological collection of the Zoological Museum, Museum of Natural History, Berlin as of December, 1989. Besides a few cases in which the status of the types is questionable, the collection contains 282 type specimens of 93 taxa. 63 of these taxa are presently regarded as valid at the specific or subspecific level.