Species Lucasium steindachneri (Boulenger, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diplodactylus steindachneri Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). 1. London : British Museum xii 436 pp. 32 pls. [102, pl. 8 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 76.3.4.58, Peak Downs, QLD (as Sydney, New South Wales).

  Type locality references:

  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. [84].
• Diplodactylus stenurus Werner, F. 1909. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique in Brussell. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 28: 263-288 [267].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB Typ. cat. 2022 (Gen. cat. 3981), QLD.
• Diplodactylus jonathoni Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [12].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R95612, 20 km E of main north-south road, on road to Iron Range, QLD [13°06'S 142°55'E].

  Secondary source:

   Shea, G.M. 1987. Comment on the proposed suppression for nomenclatural purposes of three works by Richard W. Wells and C. Ross Wellington. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44(4): 257-261.

 

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. [84]

 

Generic Combinations

• Lucasium steindachneri (Boulenger, 1885). —
  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 [205]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, oviparous.

 

General References

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

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Box-patterned Gecko)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		22-Apr-2013	MOVED
07-Feb-2024		30-Mar-2012	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)