Gehyra species have a wide geographic range, covering most of the Oceania and Melanesian Islands as far north as the Ryukyu Islands and Thailand .
Dtellas are moderately sized geckos. Gehyra species have toepads and powerful claws . Like some other geckos they also have a tendency to drop strips of skin if handled carelessly.
The following species are recognized as being valid.
Gehyra angusticaudata (Taylor, 1963) – narrow-tailed four-clawed geckoGehyra australis (Gray , 1845) – top-end dtellaGehyra baliola (A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – short-tailed dtellaGehyra barea Kopstein , 1926Gehyra borroloola King, 1984 – Borroloola dtellaGehyra brevipalmata (W. Peters, 1874) – Palau Island dtellaGehyra butleri Boulenger , 1900Gehyra catenata Low, 1979 – chain-backed dtellaGehyra dubia (Macleay , 1877) – dubious dtellaGehyra einasleighensis Bourke, Pratt, Vanderduys & Moritz, 2017 Gehyra fehlmanni (Taylor, 1962) – Fehlmann's dtellaGehyra fenestra F. Mitchell, 1965 – Pilbara spotted geckoGehyra georgpotthasti Flecks et al., 2012 Gehyra interstitialis Oudemans, 1894 – Oudemans' dtellaGehyra kimberleyi Börner & Schüttler, 1982 – Kimberley dtellaGehyra koira Horner, 2005 – banded rock dtellaGehyra lacerata (Taylor, 1962) – lacerated dtellaGehyra lazelli (Wells & Wellington, 1985) Gehyra leopoldi Brongersma , 1930Gehyra marginata Boulenger, 1887 – Moluccan geckoGehyra membranacruralis King & Horner, 1989 – Port Moresby dtellaGehyra minuta King, 1982 – dwarf dtellaGehyra montium Storr , 1982Gehyra moritzi Hutchinson et al., 2014 Gehyra multiporosa Doughty et al., 2012 Gehyra mutilata (Wiegmann , 1834) – stump-tailed geckoGehyra nana Storr, 1978 – northern spotted rock dtellaGehyra occidentalis King, 1984 – Kimberley Plateau dtellaGehyra oceanica (Lesson, 1830) – Pacific dtellaGehyra pamela King, 1982 – Arnhemland Watercourse dtellaGehyra papuana A. Meyer, 1874 – Papua dtellaGehyra pilbara Mitchell, 1965 – Pilbara dtellaGehyra pulingka Hutchinson et al., 2014 Gehyra punctata (Fry, 1914) – spotted dtellaGehyra purpurascens Storr, 1982 – purplish dtellaGehyra robusta King, 1984 – robust dtellaGehyra serraticauda Skipwith & P. Oliver, 2014 Gehyra spheniscus Doughty et al., 2012 Gehyra variegata (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron , 1836) – tree dtellaGehyra versicolor Hutchinson et al., 2014 Gehyra vorax Girard , 1858Gehyra xenopus Storr, 1978 – crocodile-faced dtellaNota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Gehyra .
