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Gehyra occidentalis KING, 1984

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kimberley Plateau Dtella 
SynonymGehyra australis — KING 1983 (partim)
Gehyra occidentalis KING 1984
Dactyloperus occidentalis — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985
Phyriadoria occidentalis — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989
Gehyra occidentalis — KLUGE 1993
Gehyra occidentalis — COGGER 2000: 240
Gehyra occidentalis — DOUGHTY et al. 2012 
DistributionAustralia (Western Australia, Western Kimberley region)

Type locality: Manning Gorge, Western Australia (16°44’S 125°57’E)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: WAM R83711, (DR King, 3.xii.1980) 
Diagnosis 
CommentGroup: Belongs to the Gehyra australis species complex.

Similar species: populations that may have been assigned to G. occidentalis have been described as Gehyra multiporosa. 
EtymologyThe specific name occidentalis (Latin) refers to the western distribution of this species. 
References
  • 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.
  • DOUGHTY, PAUL; GAYLEEN BOURKE, LEONARDO G. TEDESCHI, RENAE C. PRATT, PAUL M. OLIVER, RUSSELL A. PALMER, CRAIG MORITZ 2018. Species delimitation in the Gehyra nana (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex: cryptic and divergent morphological evolution in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4403 (2): 201–244 - get paper here
  • Doughty, Paul;, Russell Palmer, Mark J. Sistrom, Aaron M. Bauer and Stephen C. Donnellan, 2012. Two new species of Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) geckos from the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 27: 117-134 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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. A new species of Gehyra (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from northern Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108 (1-2): 113-117 - get paper here
  • Moritz, C. C., Pratt, R. C., Bank, S., Bourke, G., Bragg, J. G., Doughty, P., Keogh, J. S., Laver, R. J., Potter, S., Teasdale, L. C., Tedeschi, L. G. and Oliver, P. M. 2017. Cryptic lineage diversity, body size divergence, and sympatry in a species complex of Australian lizards (Gehyra). Evolution doi:10.1111/evo.13380 - 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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