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• Phyria punctulata Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [53] [nomen dubium].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, presumed lost, Port Essington, NT.

  Secondary source:

   Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Bauer, A.M., Pepper, M. & Keogh, J.S. 2018. A replacement name for Gehyra punctulata Doughty, Bauer, Pepper & Keogh, 2018 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) and the nomenclatural status of Phyria punctulata Gray, 1842. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33: 133–134.
• Peropus pusillus Cope, E.D. 1869. Observations on reptiles of the Old World. Article II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1868: 316-323 [319] [treated as a valid species of Leptodactylus by Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). 1. London : British Museum xii 436 pp. 32 pls (167) and by Wermuth, H. 1965. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae. Das Tierreich 80(1–22): 1–246 (100); Loveridge, A. 1934. Australian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77: 243–383 (303) rejected type status of MCZ 5725, which had previously been regarded as Cope's holotype and assigned to Diplodactylus spinigerus].

  Type data:

   Holotype (presumed lost), SW Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). 1. London : British Museum xii 436 pp. 32 pls.; Loveridge, A. 1934. Australian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 77: 243-383; Wermuth, H. 1965. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae. Das Tierreich 80(1–22): 1-246.
• Gecko trachyloemus Peters, W. 1872. Über neue oder weniger bekannte Saurier. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1872: 774-776 [1873 on title page] [774].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB (not found, presumed lost), N Australia.

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