Euleptes

{{Short description|Genus of gecko}}

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| fossil_range = Miocene – Recent

| image = Euleptes europaea 4729841.jpg

| taxon = Euleptes

| authority = Fitzinger, 1843

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

}}

Euleptes is a genus of geckos represented by the European leaf-toed gecko (Euleptes europaea), the sole extant species.

Two extinct species are known from the Miocene of the France, Czech Republic and Slovakia; E. gallica and E. klembarai.{{cite journal |last1=Čerňanský |first1=A. |last2=Bauer |first2=A.M. |title=Euleptes gallica Müller (Squamata: Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Lower Miocene of North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic |journal=Folia Zoologica |date=2010 |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=323–328 |doi=10.25225/fozo.v59.i4.a8.2010 |s2cid=85769585 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267383558}}{{cite journal |last1=Čerňanský |first1=A. |last2=Daza |first2=J.D. |last3=Bauer |first3=A.M. |title=Geckos from the middle Miocene of Devínska Nová Ves (Slovakia): new material and a review of the previous record |journal=Swiss Journal of Geosciences |date=2018 |volume=111 |issue=1–2 |pages=183–190 |doi=10.1007/s00015-017-0292-1 |s2cid=135177121 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322539962}}

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