Genus Lucasium Wermuth, 1965

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lucasium Wermuth, H. 1965. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae. Das Tierreich 80(1–22): 1-246 [x, 100] [nom. nov. pro Lucasius Kinghorn, 1929].

  Type species:

   Ceramodactylus damaeus Lucas & Frost, 1896 by monotypy.
• Lucasius Kinghorn, J.R. 1929. Herpetological Notes. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 76-84 [77] [non Lucasius Kinahan, 1859 and non Lucasius Dours, 1872].

  Type species:

   Ceramodactylus damaeus Lucas & Frost, 1896 by original designation.

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. [94]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Mount Isa Inlier (MII) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU) ; NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP) ; SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Nullarbor (NUL), Yalgoo (YAL) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL)

General References

Oliver, P.M., Hutchinson, M.N. & Cooper, S.J.B. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships in the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray and resurrection of Lucasium Wermuth (Gekkota, Diplodactylidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 55: 197-210 (revised placement of species)

Oliver, P.M., Hutchinson, M.N. & Cooper, S.J.B. 2011. Corrigendum to: Phylogenetic relationships in the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray and resurrection of Lucasium Wermuth (Gekkota, Diplodactylidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 59(344-345)

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