Species Gehyra punctata (Fry, 1914)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Peropus variegatus punctatus Fry, D.B. 1914. On a collection of reptiles and batrachians from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery 1: 174-210 [178].

  Type data:

   Lectotype WAM R176100 (formerly 9879) 1 subadult ♀, ‘Strelley River, Pilbara’ WA [20°33'S, 119°00'E].
  Paralectotype(s) NMV D268 1 specimen illustrated in Pl. IX, Fig. 3, p. 124, in Lucas & Frost (1896);
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (one specimen located and designated as lectotype, others presumed lost, see Mitchell (1965) and Ellis et al. (2018)), Strelly River, Pilbara District, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Doughty, P., Bauer, A.M., Pepper, M. & Keogh, J.S. 2018. Spots before the eyes: revision of the saxicoline geckos of the Gehyra punctata (Squamata: Gekkonidae) species complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33: 1–50 [11] (see also Eliis et al. (2018) for more details on Lectotypes designation).
• Gehyra fenestra Mitchell, F.J. 1965. Australian geckos assigned to the genus Gehyra Gray. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 46: 287-319 [307] [CHECK SYNONYMY].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R20199 1 specimen, Mt Herbert, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM R20198 1 specimen, ‘roof of cave near Tambrey Homestead’; WAM R20200 1 specimen, ‘under rock, Big Hill Pool’; WAM R20201 1 specimen, ‘rocks on table-land behind Tambrey Homestead’; WAM R20202 1 specimen, ‘under rocks on the side of Mt. Herbert’; SAMA R496 1 specimen, ‘under rocks on the side of Mt. Herbert’; SAMA R4597, R4601–2 3 specimens, ‘table-land behind Tambrey Homestead’; SAMA R4600 1 specimen, ‘summit of Mt. Herbert’.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Storr, G.M. 1982. Two new Gehyra (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) from Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 10(1): 53-59

 

Generic Combinations

• Gehyra punctata (Fry, 1914). —
  Mitchell, F.J. 1955. Preliminary account of the Reptilia and Amphibia collected by the National Geographic Society—Commonwealth Government—Smithsonian Institution Expedition to Arnhem Land (April to November, 1948). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 11: 373-408 [386] (as Gehyra variegata punctata)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Gascoyne (GAS), Pilbara (PIL)

Ecological Descriptors

Nocturnal, oviparous.

 

General References

Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P. & Bauer, A.M. 2018. An annotated type catalogue of the geckos and pygopods (Squamata: Gekkota: Carphodactylidae, Diplodactylidae, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33(51–94) [71]

King, M. 1979. Karyotypic evolution in Gehyra (Gekkonidae: Reptilia) I. The Gehyra variegata-punctata complex. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 373-393

Mitchell, F.J. 1965. Australian geckos assigned to the genus Gehyra Gray. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 46: 287-319 (taxonomy)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Spotted Dtella)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	GEKKOTA	13-Dec-2019	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		24-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		16-Dec-2011	MOVED
07-Feb-2024		07-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)