Diplodactylus fulleri STORR, 1978

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Higher Taxa	Diplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Lake Disappointment Ground Gecko
Synonym	Diplodactylus fulleri STORR 1978 Turnerdactylus fulleri — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989 Diplodactylus fulleri — KLUGE 1993 Diplodactylus fulleri — COGGER 2000: 218 Diplodactylus fulleri — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (Western Australia) Type locality: Lake Disappointment, Western Australia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM R31331
Diagnosis
Comment	Group: Diplodactylus stenodactylus group Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). Conservation: this is one of the most-threatened reptile species in Australia (Geyle et al. 2021).
Etymology	Named after Phillip John Fuller, an ornithologist who worked in Western Australia.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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. Ellis, Ryan J.; Paul Doughty and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. An annotated type catalogue of the geckos and pygopods (Squamata: Gekkota: Carphodactylidae, Diplodactylidae, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33: 051–094 - get paper here Geyle, H. M., Tingley, R., Amy, A., Cogger, H., Couper, P., Cowan, M., Craig, M., Doughty, P., Driscoll, D., Ellis, R., Emery, J-P., Fenner, A., Gardner, M., Garnett, S., Gillespie, G., Greenless, M., Hoskin, C., Keogh, S., Lloyd, R., ... Chapple, D. 2020. Reptiles on the brink: Identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction. Pacific Conservation Biology - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1978. Seven new gekkonid lizards from Western Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 6: 337-352 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Gekkonidae/Diplodactylus… http://www.andamannicobarsnakes.com/Xenocrophistytleri.html http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MwVb5KuoHdc/TuJuWWbVn0I/AAAAAAAAWRE/xomOgJr56Lo… Google images

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