Genus Strophurus Fitzinger, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Strophurus Fitzinger, L.J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus Primus. Amblyglossae. Vienna : Braümüller et Seidel i-vi, 106 pp. [93].

  Type species:

   Discodactylus dumerilii Fitzinger, 1843 by monotypy.
• Strophura Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [148].

  Type species:

   Diplodactylus spinigerus Gray, 1842 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Kluge, A.G. 1967. Higher taxonomic categories of gekkonid lizards and their evolution. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135: 1-59 (but more correctly as Diplodactylus strophurus (Duméril & Bibron), type species by tautonomy).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

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