Subspecies Strophurus taenicauda taenicauda (De Vis, 1886)

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• Diplodactylus taenicauda De Vis, C.W. 1886. On certain geckos in the Queensland Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 168-170 [1887 on title page] [169].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM J11215, Chinchilla, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kluge, A.G. 1967. Systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray (Gekkonidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1007-1108; Covacevich, J. 1971. Amphibian and reptile type specimens in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 49-68.
• Diplodactylus taeniocauda Boulenger, G.A. 1887. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). 3. London : British Museum xii 575 pp. 40 pls. [483] [invalid emendation of Diplodactylus taenicauda De Vis, 1886].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [85]

Generic Combinations

• Strophurus taenicauda (De Vis, 1886).

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, low open woodland, nocturnal, open scrub, oviparous.

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