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Gehyra baliola (DUMÉRIL, 1851)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Short-tailed Dtella 
SynonymHemidactylus Baliolus DUMÉRIL 1851: 38
Hemidactylus baliolus — DUMÉRIL 1856
Peripia torresiana GÜNTHER 1877: 415
Peripia marmorata MACLEAY 1877: 99
Peripia brevicaudis MACLEAY 1877: 99
Gehyra baliola — BOULENGER 1885: 150
Gehyra variegata — BOULENGER (partim) 1885
Gehyra marmorata — BOULENGER 1885: 147
Gehyra brevicaudis — BOULENGER 1885: 147
Gehyra baliola — DE ROOIJ 1915: 42
Peropus baliolus — CHRAPLIWY et al. 1954
Gehyra baliola — WERMUTH 1965: 33
Gehyra oceanica — WHITAKER et al. (partim) 1982
Gehyra torresiana — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985
Gehyra baliola — KLUGE 1993
Gehyra baliola — COGGER 2000: 236
Gehyra baliola — WILSON & SWAN 2010 
DistributionAustralia (Torres Strait Islands; island of the far northern Great Barrier Reef);
not on the Australian mainland.
SE Papua New Guinea

Type locality: New Guinea.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 6574 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1068 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyFrom the Latin baliola, a word used by Plautus to refer to "bay, red, spotted" (Duméril, 1856), but in turn likely to be derived from the Greek balios (dappled or piebald). (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • 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
  • Chrapliwy, P. S., H. M. Smith, and C. Grant. 1961. Systematic status of the geckonid lizard genera Gehyra, Peropus, Hoplodactylus and Naultinus. Herpetologica 17: 5-12 - 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.
  • de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.M.C. & A. H. A. Duméril 1851. Catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptiles du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Gide et Baudry/Roret, Paris, 224 pp.
  • Günther, A. 1877. Descriptions of three new species of lizards from Islands of Torres Straits. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19: 413—415 - get paper here
  • Horner, P. 2005. Gehyra koira sp. nov. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), a new species of lizard with two allopatric subspecies from the Ord-Victoria region of north-western Australia and a key to the Gehyra australis species complex. The Beagle 21: 165-174 - get paper here
  • King M 1984. The Gehyra australis species complex (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 4 (2-4) 1983: 147-169 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1948. New Guinean reptiles and amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and United States National Museum. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 101 (2): 305-430. - get paper here
  • Macleay, W. 1877. The lizards of the Chevert Expedition. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 2: 60-69; 97-104 - get paper here
  • OLIVER, PAUL; MARK SISTROM, BURHAN TJATURADI, KELIOPAS KREY & STEPHEN RICHARDS 2010. On the status and relationships of the gecko species Gehyra barea Kopstein 1926, with description of new specimens and a range extension. Zootaxa 2354: 45–55 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H., Glaw, F.& R. Günther 2005. Aktualisierte Liste der Geckos von Neuguinea (Sauria: Geckonidae: Gekkoninae) mit vorläufiger Charakterisierung von neun Formen aus den Gattungen Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827, Gehyra Gray, 1834 und Nactus Kluge, 1983. Gekkota 5: 33-64 - get paper here
  • Skipwith, Phillip L. & Paul M. Oliver 2014. A new Gehyra (Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from New Guinea with unique caudal scalation. Zootaxa 3827 (1): 057–066 - 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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