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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko 
SynonymOedura tryoni DE VIS 1884
Oedura ocellata BOULENGER 1885: 105 (partim)
Oedura Tryoni — BOULENGER 1885
Oedura tryoni — OUDEMANS 1894
Oedura marmorata — LOVERIDGE 1934 (partim)
Oedura tryoni — BUSTARD 1966
Oedura tryoni — KLUGE 1993
Oedura tryoni — RÖSLER 1995: 82
Oedura tryoni — COGGER 2000: 266
Oedura tryoni — OLIVER et al. 2012
Amalosia tryoni — KAY et al. 2013
Oedura tryoni — HOSKIN 2019 
DistributionAustralia (NE New South Wales, SE Queensland)

Type locality: Stanthorpe (Queensland, Australia).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype: AMS R21601 (1884 Oedura tryoni De Vis; designated by Bustard 1966). Holotype originally in QM (lost). 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Henry Tryon (1856-1943), an English scientist. He abandoned medicine in favor of natural science, particularly botany and entomology. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Broom, R. 1898. On the lizards of the Chillagoe District, N Queensland. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 22: 639-645 [1897] - get paper here
  • Bustard, H. R. 1966. The Oedura tryoni complex: East Australian rock-dwelling geckos. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 14: 1—14 - get paper here
  • Bustard, H.R. 1967. Reproduction in the Australian gekkonid genus Oedura Gray 1842 Herpetologica 23 (4): 276-284. - get paper here
  • Bustard, H.R. 1971. A Population Study of the Eyed gecko, Oedura ocellata BOULENGER, in northern New South Wales, Australia. Copeia 1971 (4): 658-669 - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • de Vis, C. W. 1884. On new Australian lizards. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 1: 53-56 - get paper here
  • HOSKIN, CONRAD J. 2019. Description of three new velvet geckos (Diplodactylidae: Oedura) from inland eastern Australia, and redescription of Oedura monilis De Vis. Zootaxa 4683 (2): 242–270 - get paper here
  • Kay, G.M.; D. Michael; M. Crane; S. Okada; C. MacGregor; D. Florance; D. Trengove; L. McBurney; D. Blair; D.B. Lindenmayer. 2013. A list of reptiles and amphibians from Box Gum Grassy Woodlands in south-eastern Australia. Check List 9 (3):476-481 - get paper here
  • Laube, A. 2001. Erfahrungen bei der Haltung und Zucht von Oedura tryoni DE VIS 1884. Sauria 23 (4): 41-46 - get paper here
  • Laube, A. & Langner, C. 2007. Australische Samtgeckos. Die Gattung Oedura. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. - get paper here
  • Oliver PM, McDonald PJ. 2016. Young relicts and old relicts: a novel palaeoendemic vertebrate from the Australian Central Uplands. R. Soc. open sci. 3: 160018 - get paper here
  • Oliver, Paul M.; Aaron M. Bauer, Eli Greenbaum, Todd Jackman, Tara Hobbie 2012. Molecular phylogenetics of the arboreal Australian gecko genus Oedura Gray 1842 (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae): Another plesiomorphic grade? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63 (2): 255-264 - get paper here
  • Oudemans, J. Th. 1894. Eidechsen und Schildkröten. In Semon, R. Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 8:127—146 - get paper here
  • Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp.
  • Schmida, G. 2007. Betrachtungen zu den australischen Samtgeckos der Gattung Oedura. Draco 8 (29): 22-30 - get paper here
  • Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp.
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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