Genus Nephrurus Günther, 1876

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• Nephrurus Günther, A. 1876. Descriptions of new species of reptiles from Australia. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 5: 45-47 [46].

  Type species:

   Nephrurus asper Günther, 1876 by monotypy.
• Anomalurus Fitzinger, L.J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus Primus. Amblyglossae. Vienna : Braümüller et Seidel i-vi, 106 pp. [90] [non Anomalurus Waterhouse, Jan. 1843].

  Type species:

   Gymnodactylus miliusii Duméril & Bibron, 1836 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mulga Lands (ML), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Hampton (HAM), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL)

General References

Oliver, P.M. & Bauer, A.M. 2011. Systematics and evolution of the Australian knob-tailed geckos (Nephrurus, Carphodactylidae, Gekkota): Plesiomorphic grades and biome shifts through the Miocene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(3): 664-674

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