Toropuku stephensi

Familia: Diplodactylidae
Genus: Toropuku
Species:

Toropuku stephensi (Robb, 1980)

• Holotype: MONZ R1858 (UA R113), adult ♂.
• Type locality: “Stephens Island”.

• Hoplodactylus stephensi Robb, 1980 [original combination]
• Toropuku stephensi — Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty, 2011 [subsequent combination]

• Robb, J. 1980. Three new species of gekkonid lizards, genera Hoplodactylus Fitzinger and Heteropholis Fischer, from New Zealand. National Museum of New Zealand Records 1(19): 305–310. Reference page. 
• Nielsen, S.V., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R., Hitchmough, R.A. & Daugherty, C.H. 2011. New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.007 Reference page. 

• Robb, J. 1980. New Zealand Amphibians and Reptiles in Colour. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0 00 216944 4 Reference page. 
• Hitchmough, R.A., Patterson, G.K. &Daugherty, C.H. 2009. New Zealand living and recently extinct reptiles. P. 542 in:
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• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Toropuku stephensi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 March 2023.
• Hitchmough, R., van Winkel, D., Lettink, M. & Chapple, D. 2019. IUCN: Toropuku stephensi  (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T10253A120187688. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T10253A120187688.en. Accessed on 01 March 2023.