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Common Wonder Gecko

Teratoscincus scincus (Schlegel, 1858)

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

Teratoscincus scincus, commonly referred to as the common wonder gecko or the frog-eyed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is native to arid parts of Asia and has special adaptations which suit it to desert life.

Wikipedia contributors, Teratoscincus scincus; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T08:18:38.914510+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name: Teratoscincus scincus (Schlegel, 1858)
Name authority: (Schlegel, 1858)
Common name: Common Wonder Gecko
Rank: species
Accepted status: accepted
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Teratoscincus
Extinction status: Not supplied by this source

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
kingdomAnimalia
phylumChordata
subphylumVertebrata
infraphylumGnathostomata
parvphylumOsteichthyes
megaclassTetrapoda
classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
suborderGekkota
familySphaerodactylidae
genusTeratoscincus
speciesTeratoscincus scincus (Schlegel, 1858)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Teratoscincus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

Species	Classification	Source status
Bedriaga's Wonder GeckoTeratoscincus bedriagai Nikolsky, 1900	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Persian Wonder GeckoTeratoscincus keyserlingii Strauch, 1863	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Small-scaled Wonder GeckoTeratoscincus microlepis Nikolsky, 1900	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Teratoscincus roborowskii Bedriaga, 1906	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
frog-eyed geckoTeratoscincus mesriensis Nazarov, Radjabizadeh, Poyarkov, Ananjeva, Melnikov & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2017	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Teratoscincus rustamowi Szczerbak, 1979	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Sistan frog-eyed geckoTeratoscincus sistanense Akbarpour, Shafiei, Sehhatisabet & Damadi, 2017	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Przewalski's Wonder GeckoTeratoscincus przewalskii Strauch, 1887	SphaerodactylidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

Browse 186 records assigned to Sphaerodactylidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded name	Source status
Stenodactylus scincus Schlegel, 1858 Schlegel, 1858	synonym

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

C and W Iran, W Afghanistan and N Baluchistan, (Pakistan), W China (below 200 m elevation, in the north from Ili River Valley of Xinjiang Uygur and the foothills and valley of the Tien, Shan mountains), E coast of the Caspian Sea south through the deserts of the former USSR, isolated populations on the Arabian Peninsula in Qatar, Oman, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Teratoscincus&species=scincus Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:55DWT. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.