Genus Underwoodisaurus Wermuth, 1965

Museums

Regional Maps

• Underwoodisaurus Wermuth, H. 1965. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae. Das Tierreich 80(1–22): 1-246 [ix, 47] [nom. nov. pro Anomalurus Fitzinger, 1843; introduced as a subgenus of Gymnodactylus Spix, 1825].

  Type species:

   Phyllurus milii Bory, 1825 by original designation.
• Anomalurus Fitzinger, L.J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus Primus. Amblyglossae. Vienna : Braümüller et Seidel i-vi, 106 pp. [18, 90] [described as a subgenus of Gymnodactylus Spix, 1825; non Anomalurus Waterhouse, Jan. 1843].

  Type species:

   Gymnodactylus miliusii Duméril & Bibron, 1836 by monotypy.

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. [100]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Pilbara (PIL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Doughty, P. & Oliver, P.M. 2011. A new species of Underwoodisaurus (Squamata: Gekkota: Carphodactylidae) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Zootaxa 3010: 20-30

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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