FAMILY EUBLEPHARIDAE

Geckos that posses moveable, closeable eyelids, soft small-scaled skin, and lack adhesive pads on the toes. The vertebrae are procoelous and there is a single parietal bone.

This is a small family of tropical/subtropical species found in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Included are familiar "pet" lizards such as North American banded geckos (genus Coleonyx), African fat-tail geckos (Hemitheconyx) and the very popular leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius, illustrated here).

Photo by Dr. R. . Sprackland.

LITERATURE:

Wellborn, Vera. 1933. Comparative osteological examinations of geckonids, eublepharids and uroplatids. Translated  reprint 1997, by Anthony Russell, Aaron Bauer, and Alexandra Deufel. Herpetological Translations, No. 1. Breck Bartholomew, Bibliomania! Logan, Utah.