Dactylocnemis pacificus

Familia: Diplodactylidae
Genus: Dactylocnemis
Species:

Dactylocnemis pacificus (Gray, 1842)

• Lectotype: BMNH 1946.8.22.67.
• Type locality: “South Sea Islands”.

• Naultinus pacificus Gray, 1842: 58 [original combination]
• Platydactylus pacificus — Duméril in Duméril & Duméril, 1851 [subsequent combination]
• Dactylocnemis pacificus — Steindachner, 1867 [subsequent combination]
• Hoplodactylus pacificus — Boulenger, 1885: 173 [subsequent combination]

• New Zealand: North Island and its associated islands.

• Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some new species of reptiles, chiefly from the British Museum collection. pp. 57–59 in: J.E. Gray, The zoological miscellany. Part 2 . Treuttel, Würtz & Co., London. Google books

• Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of two hitherto unrecorded species of reptiles from New Zealand; presented to the British Museum by Dr. Dieffenbach. P. 72 in: J.E. Gray, The zoological miscellany. Part 2 . Treuttel, Würtz & Co., London. Google books
• McCann, C. 1955. The lizards of New Zealand. Gekkonidae and Scincidae. Dominion Museum bulletin (17). Reference page. 
• Robb, J.; Rowlands, R.P.V. 1977: Reinstatement of Hoplodactylus maculatus (Boulenger) with redescription of H. pacificus (Gray) (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 133-142. Reference page. 
• McCallum, J. 1981. Reptiles of Tawhiti Rahi Island, Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand. Tane, 27: 55–58. PDF
• Hitchmough, R.A.; Patterson, G.K.; Daugherty, C.H. (compilers) 2009: New Zealand living and recently extinct reptiles. P. 542 in:
• King, C.M., Roberts, C.D., Bell, B.D., Fordyce, R.E., Nicoll, R.S., Worthy, T.H., Paulin, C.D., Hitchmough, R.A., Keyes, I.W., Baker, A.N., Stewart, A.L., Hiller, N., McDowall, R.M., Holdaway, R.N., McPhee, R.P., Schwarzhans, W.W., Tennyson A.J.D., Rust, S. & McCadie, I. 2009. Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. Pp. 431–551 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2009. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8 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. 

• Hitchmough, R., van Winkel, D. & Chapple, D. 2019. IUCN: Dactylocnemis pacificus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T120157029A120192509. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T120157029A120192509.en. Accessed on 23 July 2025.