Gehyra purpurascens STORR, 1982
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Gehyra purpurascens
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Purplish Dtella |
| Synonym | Gehyra purpurascens STORR 1982 Gehyra pilbara — BÖRNER & SCHÜTTLER 1983 (partim) Dactyloperus purpurascens — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984 Gehyra purpurascens — KLUGE 1993 Gehyra purpurascens — COGGER 2000: 243 Gehyra purpurascens — WILSON & SWAN 2010 |
| Distribution | Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia) Type locality: 3.5 km NE of Comet Vale, Western Australia, in 29°55'S, 121°08'E. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: WAM R72660 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A medium-sized arboreal Gehyra, most like G. variegata but larger (SVL up to 64, v. up to 54 mm) and with ground colour greyish (rather than brownish), dorsal pattern less prominent and lacking white spots or short white bars, top of rostral almost horizontal (more acutely gable-shaped in variegata) and fewer pre-anal pores (often less than 11, v. rarely less than 11 in variegata). Distinguishable from G. pilbara Mitchell and G. montium sp. nov. by absence of pale spots and by postnasal not much larger than posterior supranasal, and additionally from pilbara by first upper labial not higher than second. |
| Comment | Group: member of the G. variegata-punctata species complex. Abundance: quite ommon, with more than 400 specimens collected (Pianka 2011) Distribution: see map in Kealley et al. 2018: 4 (Fig. 1). |
| Etymology | The name purpurascens is Latin for 'purplish'. |
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