Species Phyllurus platurus (White, 1790)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lacerta platura White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, with sixty five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. Appendix. London : Debrett 299 pp. [246, pl. 32 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH xxii.98.a (now an alizarin transparency, regarded as likely holotype by Covacevich, J. 1975. A review of the genus Phyllurus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 293–303), vicinity of Sydney, NSW.

  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. [99].
• Stellio phyllurus Schneider, J.G. 1797. Amphibiorum Physiologiae Specimen Secundeum. Zurichen 2nd edn. [31] [unnecessary replacement name for Lacerta platura White, 1790].
• Agama discosura Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems Amphibien. Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg : Krieger xv 199 pp. [51] [for vernacular 'lézard discosure' of Lacépède, B.G.E. 1804. Mémoire sur plusieurs animaux de la Nouvelle-Hollande dont la description n'a pas encore été publiée. Ann. Mus. Natl Hist. Nat. Paris 4: 184–211].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (not found), Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Lacépède, B.G.E. 1804. Mémoire sur plusieurs animaux de la Nouvelle-Hollande dont la description n'a pas encore été publiée. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4: 184-211 pls 55-58.
• Agama platyura Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems Amphibien. Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg : Krieger xv 199 pp. [51] [unnecessary replacement name for Lacerta platura White, 1791].
• Phyllurus novaehollandiae Schinz, H.R. 1822. Das Thierreich eingetheilt nach dem Bau der Thiere von Cuvier. Stuttgart & Tübingen. [79] [as Phyll. novaehollandiae, ex Cuvier ms; unnecessary replacement name for Lacerta platura White, 1790].
• Phyllurus cuvieri Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. 1825. p. 183 in, Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Rey et Gravier Vol. 7. [183] [also figured in Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. 1831. Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. Atlas. Phyllurus milii, Phyllurus cuvieri. Paris : Rey Clap et Gravier Tom. 17 (pl. 120 fig. 2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (presumed lost), 'environs of Port Jackson', NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. 1831. Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. Atlas et illustration des planches. Paris : Rey et Gravier Vol. 17 141 pp., 160 pls.
• Phyllurus whitii Gray, J.E. 1825. A synopsis of the genera of Reptiles and Amphibia, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy 2 10: 193-217 [198] [as P. whitii].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Gecko platycaudus Schinz, H.R. 1835. Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Reptilien. Leipzig. iv 240 pp. [75, pl. 17 fig. 3] [unnecessary replacement name for Stellio phyllurus Schneider, 1797].
• Phyllurus australis Swainson, W. 1839. The natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. In, Lardner, D. The Cabinet of Natural History. Vol. 2 London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, and John Taylor 452 pp. 135 figs. [370, fig.] [?replacement name for Phyllurus platurus White, 1790].
• Phyllurus inermis Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH xxii.100a, Australia.

 

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. [99]

 

Generic Combinations

• Phyllurus platurus (White, 1790). —
  Péron, F. 1807. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, Fait par Ordre du Gouvernement, sur les Corvettes le Géographique, le Naturaliste, et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Historique. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 1.
  Péron, F. 1807. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, Fait par Ordre du Gouvernement, sur les Corvettes le Géographique, le Naturaliste, et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Historique. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 1.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, tall forest.

 

General References

Covacevich, J. 1975. A review of the genus Phyllurus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 293-303 (taxonomy)

Green, D. 1973. Observations on the southern leaf-tailed gecko Phyllurus platurus (Shaw). Herpetofauna 6: 21-24 (natural history)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko)

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [21] (Broad-tailed Gecko)

 

History of changes

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