Species Diplodactylus vittatus Gray, 1832

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• Diplodactylus vittatus Gray, J.E. 1832. Characters of a new genus of Mammalia, and of a new genus and two new species of lizards, from New Holland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1832: 39-40 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [436]] [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1946.9.7.43, Australia (as Nova Hollandia); restriction of type locality to Darling Range, WA by Kluge (1974), shown to be invalid by Storr (1979). Probable type locality the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, NSW (see Hutchinson et al.[2009]).

  Type locality references:

  Kluge, A.G. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 147: 1-221; Storr, G.M. 1979. The Diplodactylus vittatus complex (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 7: 391-402.
• Phyllodactylus barbouri Angel, M.F. 1936. Deux gekkos nouveaux de Madagascar appartenant au genre Phyllodactylus. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 61: 508-511 [508].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 5600, unknown (as Madagascar, in errore).

 

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. [86]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, open scrub, oviparous, tall forest.

 

General References

Bustard, H.R. 1968. Temperature dependent activity in the Australian gecko Diplodactylus vittatus. Copeia 1968: 606-612

Hutchinson, M.N., Doughty, P. & Oliver, P.M. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the stone geckos (Squamata: Diplodactylidae: Diplodactylus) of southern Australia. Zootaxa 2167: 25-46 [29] (revised description)

King, M. 1977. Chromosomal and morphometric variation in the gecko Diplodactylus vittatus Gray. Australian Journal of Zoology 25: 43-57

Kluge, A.G. 1967. Systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray (Gekkonidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1007-1108 (taxonomy)

Oliver, P., Hugall, A., Adams, M., Cooper, S.J.B. & Hutchinson, M. 2007. Genetic elucidation of ancient and cryptic diversity in a group of Australian geckos: the Diplodactylus vittatus complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 77-88

Storr, G.M. 1979. The Diplodactylus vittatus complex (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 7: 391-402 (taxonomy)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Wood Gecko)

 

History of changes

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07-Feb-2024		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		16-Dec-2011	MOVED
07-Feb-2024		16-Dec-2011	MOVED
07-Feb-2024		07-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
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