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Diplodactylus kenneallyi STORR, 1988

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kenneally's Gecko 
SynonymDiplodactylus kenneallyi STORR 1988
Manwellisaurus kenneallyi — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989
Diplodactylus kenneallyi — KLUGE 1993
Diplodactylus kenneallyi — COGGER 2000: 221
Diplodactylus kenneallyi — WILSON & SWAN 2010 
DistributionAustralia (Western Australia)

Type locality: foot of stony hill near Lake Buchanan, Western Australia, in 25° 35'S, 123° 05'E.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: WAM R95245 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A short-tailed member of the D. conspicillatus group (redefined below) with moderately large subdigital granules and apical plates, rostral (but not first labial) precluded from nostril and very deep, narrow, concave-sided mental. Further distinguishable from D. conspicillatus and D. savagei by its distinct upper and lower labials, from D. pulcher by its deep and narrow first lower labial, and from all three species by its distinctive coloration. (Storr 1988)


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CommentGroup: Diplodactylus conspicillatus group.

Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after Kevin Francis Kenneally (b. 1945), a Australian botanist who worked for the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management. 
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
  • 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. 1988. Three new Diplodactylus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) from the and zone of Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 14: 217-233. - get paper here
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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