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Ctenophorus tuniluki EDWARDS & HUTCHINSON, 2023

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Southern Mallee Dragon 
SynonymCtenophorus tuniluki EDWARDS & HUTCHINSON 2023
Ctenophorus fordi Clade 5 — EDWARDS et al. 2015 
DistributionAustralia (Semiarid SE inland South Australia, NW Victoria)

Type locality: Mootatunga, N Edge of Peebinga Cons Pk, -34.95838, 140.83338.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. SAMA R45222, adult male, M. Hutchinson and G. Armstrong, 15 January 1995.
Paratypes.—See Supplementary Data. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Dorsal pattern variable from gray-brown and heavily patterned (like C. ibiri) to sandy and more-lightly marked (like C. spinodomus). Males with characteristic, small-spotted throat pattern (Figs. 7G–H, 8G–H, S8A, S8F, S9I–J). Femoral pore row reaches halfway to knee. (Edwards & Hutchinson 2023)


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CommentDistribution: see map in EDWARDS & HUTCHINSON 2023: 177 (Fig. 1) 
EtymologyNamed after the Ngarrindjeri language of the lower Murray River (Lester et al., 2022), combining tuni, translated to mean sand, and luki, translated to mean lizard (Taplin, 1879). The epithet should be treated as a noun in apposition. 
References
  • Edwards, D., & Hutchinson, M. 2023. Sand Dragons: Species of the Ctenophorus maculatus Complex (Squamata: Agamidae) of Australia's Southern and Western Interior. Journal of Herpetology 57 (2): 176-196 - get paper here
 
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