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Amalosia lesueurii (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1836)

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Lesueur's Velvet Gecko, Lesueur's Gecko 
SynonymPhyllodactylus Lesueurii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 392 (partim)
Diplodactylus (Pachyurus) Lesueurii — FITZINGER 1843
Oedura rhombifer GRAY 1845
Phyllodactylus LeSueurii — DUMÉRIL et al. 1854
Oedura lesueurii — BOULENGER 1885: 107
Oedura Leseurii — STRAUCH 1887
Oedura lesueuri — BOETTGER 1893
Phyllodactylus lesueurii — CAMP 1923
Oedura lesuerii — BARRETT 1950
Oedura lesueurii lesueurii — COGGER 1957
Oedura lessueri GABE & SAINT GIRONS 1966
Oedura lesueurii lesueurii lesueurii — BUSTARD 1967
Amalosia lesueurii — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984
Amalosia phillipsi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984
Amalosia phillipsi — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985
Oedura lesueurii — KLUGE 1993
Oedura lesueurii — COGGER 2000: 263
Oedura lesueurii — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 96
Amalosia lesueurii — OLIVER et al. 2012
Amalosia lesueurii — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 119
Amalosia lesueurii — HOSKIN & COUPER 2023 
DistributionAustralia (E New South Wales, SE Queensland)

Type locality: “Nouvelle-Guinée et à la Nouvelle-Hollande”’ restricted to Kangaroo Is., Qld. (although Cogger 1983 erroneously says Kangaroo Island, South Australia).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: MNHN-RA 0268, from Kangaroo Is., S. A. (from Australia and New Guinea in original description), designation by Cogger, H. G. (1983). Paralectotypes: from Port Jackson, N. S. W., King George’ s Sound, W. A. and New Guinea; for remaining paralectotype see Diplodactylus vittatus]; see also synonymy of Diplodactylus vittatus Gray, 1832 (fide COGGER 1983). 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1293 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentType species: Phyllodactylus Lesueurii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836 is the type species of the genus Amalosia Wells and Wellington, 1984: 75.

The type series of Phyllodactylus Lesueurii Duméril & Bibron 1836 seems to be composite. For further discussion of this and additional references see Bauer 1994.

Oedura jacovae sp. nov. is not conspecific with the lectotypes of O. rhombifer (BMNH xxii.3a) or O. lesueurii (MNHN 268).

Karyotype: 2n = 36 (King 1987) 
EtymologyNamed after Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846), a French naturalist, artist, and explorer who travelled to both Australia and lived in North America (1815-1837).

The genus name Amalosia means tender, soft (Wells & Wellington 1984: 75). 
References
  • Abayarathna T and Webb JK 2021. Do Incubation Temperatures Affect the Preferred Body Temperatures of Hatchling Velvet Geckos? Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:727602 - get paper here
  • Barrett, Charles 1950. Reptiles of Australia. Cassell & Co., London, 168 pp.
  • Bauer, A.M. 1994. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Gekkonidae I (Australia). Das Tierreich, Vol. 108, W. de Gruyter & Co. (Berlin)
  • 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
  • Bustard, H.R. 1967. Reproduction in the Australian gekkonid genus Oedura Gray 1842 Herpetologica 23 (4): 276-284. - get paper here
  • Chapple, David G.; Reid Tingley, Nicola J. Mitchell, Stewart L. Macdonald, J. Scott Keogh, Glenn M. Shea, Philip Bowles, Neil A. Cox, John C. Z. Woinarski 2019. The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017. CSIRO, 663 pp. DOI: 10.1071/9781486309474 - 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.
  • Colgan, D. J.; D. O’Meally and R. A Sadlier 2009. Phylogeographic patterns in reptiles on the New England Tablelands at the south-western boundary of the McPherson Macleay Overlap. D. J. Colgan; D. O’Meally and R. A Sadlier. Australian Journal of Zoology 57: 317-328 - get paper here
  • COUPER,PATRICK J.; LAUREN D. KEIM & CONRAD J. HOSKIN 2007. A new velvet Gecko (Gekkonidae: Oedura) from south-east Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 1587: 27–41 - get paper here
  • Doody, J. Sean; Peter Harlow, Donna Douglass, Jason D. Thiem, Ben Broadhurst, Dane Trembath, Jerry Olsen, Esteban Fuentes, and Tony Rose 2014. Patterns of Predation and Antipredator Behavior in the Australian Water Dragon, Physignathus lesueurii. Herp. Cons. Biol. 9 (1): - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.M. C. and G. Bibron. 1836. Erpetologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 3. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 528 pp. - get paper here
  • HOSKIN, C. J., & COUPER, P. J. 2023. Revision of zigzag geckos (Diplodactylidae: Amalosia) in eastern Australia, with description of five new species. Zootaxa 5343(4), 301-337 - get paper here
  • Laube, A. & Langner, C. 2007. Australische Samtgeckos. Die Gattung Oedura. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. - 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
  • 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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