Blaesodactylus

Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus:
Species (7): B. ambonihazo – B. antongilensis – B. boivini – B. ganzhorni – B. microtuberculatus – B. sakalava – B. victori

Blaesodactylus Boettger, 1893: 32

• Type species: Hemidactylus sakalava Grandidier, 1867, by monotypy.

• Boettger, O. 1893. Katalog der Reptilien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. I. Teil (Rhynchocephalen, Schildkröten, Krokodile, Eidechsen, Chamäleons). Gebrüder Knauer: Frankfurt. 140 pp. BHL

• Russell, A.P. 1978. The status of the lizard genera Blaesodactylus Boettger and Homopholis Boulenger (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Copeia 1978(1): 25–29. DOI: 10.2307/1443817 Reference page. 
• Böhme, W. & Meier, H. 1980. Revision der madagassischen Homopholis (Blaesodactylus)-Arten (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60(5–6): 303–315. Reference page. 
• Kluge, A.G. & Nussbaum, R.A. 1995. A review of African-Madagascan gekkonid lizard phylogeny and biogeography (Squamata). Miscellaneous Publications, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology 183: 1–20. hdl: 2027.42/56427 Reference page. 
• Greenbaum, E., Bauer, A.M. & Jackman, T.R. 2007. Homopholis and Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) revisited: new insights from a molecular phylogeny. African Journal of Herpetology 56(2): 101–114. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2007.9635557 Reference page. 
• Bauer, A.M., Glaw, F., Gehring, P.-S. & Vences, M. 2011. New Species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Ankarafantsika National Park in north-western Madagascar. Zootaxa 2942(1): 57–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2942.1.2 Reference page. 
• Ineich, I., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2016. A new species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tsingy limestone outcrops in Namoroka National Park, north-western Madagascar. Zootaxa 4109(5): 523–541. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.5.2. Reference page. 
• Jono, T., Bauer, A.M., Brennan, I.G. & Mori, A. 2015. New species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tsingy karstic outcrops in Ankarana National Park, northern Madagascar. Zootaxa 3980(3): 406–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.4 Reference page. 
• Mezzasalma, M., Brunelli, E., Odierna, G. & Guarino, F.M. 2023. Chromosome Diversity and Evolution of the Endemic Malagasy Velvet Geckos of the Genus Blaesodactylus (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). Animals 13(13): 2068. DOI: 10.3390/ani13132068 Reference page. 
• Vences, M., Miralles, A., Ineich, I., Rakotoarison, A., Glasenapp, C., Scherz, M.D., Köhler, J., Glaw, F. & Raselimanana, A.P. 2025. An updated survey of molecular diversity in Madagascar's velvet geckos, genus Blaesodactylus, with description of a new species from the island’s arid West. Zootaxa 5620(2): 230–254. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5620.2.2 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Blaesodactylus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 16 May 2025.