Underwoodisaurus milii (BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, 1823)
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Underwoodisaurus milii
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| Higher Taxa | Carphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Common Names | E: Thick-tailed Gecko, Barking Gecko |
| Synonym | Gecko Dorreensis PÉRON 1807 (nomen oblitum) Phyllurus milii BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT 1823: 183 Cyrtodactylus Nilii GRAY (in GRIFFITH & PIDGEON) 1831 Gymnodactylus Miliusii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 430 Gymnodactylus (Anomalurus) Miliusii — FITZINGER 1843 Phyllurus miliusii — GRAY 1845 Gymnodactylus vittatus — ANONYMOUS 1857 (non G. v. LICHTENSTEIN 1856) Phyllurus Myliusii — GRAY 1867 Phyllurus Millius — SCHMELTZ 1877 Phyllurus Blavieri DE ROCHEBRUNE 1884 Gymnodactylus miliusii — BOULENGER 1885: 48 Gymnodactylus miliusii — LUCAS & FROST 1894: 26 Gymnodactylus asper BOULENGER 1913 Gymnodactylus milii — LOVERIDGE 1934 Gymnodactylus milusii BARRETT 1950 Gymnodactylus (Underwoodisaurus) milii — WERMUTH 1965 Phyllurus mili — BUSTARD 1967 Underwoodisaurus milii — BUSTARD 1970 Underwoodisaurus husbandi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984 Underwoodisaurus asper — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Nephrurus milii — BAUER 1990 Underwoodisaurus milii — COGGER 2000: 275 Nephrurus milii — LAUBE & LANGNER 2007 Underwoodisaurus milii — OLIVER & BAUER 2011 Underwoodisaurus milii — COGGER 2014: 283 Phyllurus milii — ELLIS et al. 2018: 55 Underwoodisaurus milii — ELLIS et al. 2018: 57 Underwoodisaurus milii — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 117 Nephrurus milii — HOW et al. 2020 |
| Distribution | Australia (Southern Australia from central Queensland through New South Wales, N Victoria, South Australia and much of semi-arid Western Australia, as far north along the coast as Shark Bay. Scattered specimen recorded from Onslow, Western Australia and the S Northern Territory. Records from N Queensland are probably in error. Type locality: “Australasie sur les rives de la baie des Chiens-Marins’ [= ’Shark Bay, W. A.]; Neotype locality: ‘‘Bernier Island, Shark Bay’’. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: Iconotype in Bory de Saint-Vincent (1823). Neotype: WAM R34085, ‘Bernier Island, Shark Bay [in error, actually Dorre Is, Shark Bay]’, WA [25°09'S, 113°06'E], R.I.T. Prince, 17 April 1969, designated by Shea (2002); The original type was presumed lost fide COGGER 1983. Shea (2002) demonstrated that the type of P. milii was, in fact, a specimen illustration of Nephrurus levis occidentalis but maintained current usage of the epithet milii for the species of Underwoodisdaurus to which it has uniformly been applied, and designated a neotype to fix the name. Neotype: WAM R34085, ‘Bernier Island, Shark Bay [in error, actually Dorre Is, Shark Bay]’, WA [25°09'S, 113°06'E], R.I.T. Prince, 17 April 1969, designated by Shea (2002) [dorreensis] Holotype: AMS ? (given as Australian Museum Field Series = AMFS 25399). Collected at 12.5 km SW of Milbrodale, N.S.W. (road distance) by R. W. Wells, on 22 September, 1982. Paratypes: AMFS 25400-25404 [husbandi] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: The most inclusive clade containing U. milii (Bory de Saint-Vincent 1823), but not N. asper or Uvidicolus gen. nov. sphyrurus. A monotypic genus containing only milii (Bory de Saint-Vincent 1825). A moderately large (Adult SVL to 100 mm) genus of carphodactylid geckos with transverse subdigital lamellae, anterior loreals minute and strongly differentiated from posterior loreals,labial scales much larger than neighboring scales, mean of 26 pre-sacral vertebrae, phalangeal formula unreduced (2.3.4.5.3/2.3.4.5.4), and original tail long with 33–42 postsacral vertebrae, post pygal pleurapophysis absent or reduced, rounded or weakly depressed in cross section, and gradually tapering to tip lacking aterminal ‘knob’. |
| Comment | Type species: Phyllurus milii BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT 1823 is the type species of the genus Underwoodisaurus WERMUTH 1965. Note that Gymnodactylus Miliusii Duméril and Bibron, 1836 (= P. milii Bory de Saint-Vincent 1823) is the type species of the genus Anomalurus Fitzinger, 1843 (which is pre-occupied by Anomalurus Waterhouse 1843 (Mammalia)). |
| Etymology | Named after Baron Pierre Bernard Milius (1773-1829), a sailor, naturalist, and civil servant who took part in an exploratory voyage (1804) of the Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean, under Nicolas Baudin, during which he became friends with Bory. U. husbandi has been named after Mr Grant Husbandof Sydney in recognition of his many contributions of reptile specimens to the Australian Museum. |
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