Lucasium damaeum (LUCAS & FROST, 1896)

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Higher Taxa	Diplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Beaded Gecko
Synonym	Ceramodactylus damaeus LUCAS & FROST 1896 Lucasius damaeus — KINGHORN 1929: 77 Lucasius damaeus — LOVERIDGE 1934: 297 Lucasium damaeum — WERMUTH 1965: 100 (nom. nov.) Diplodactylus damaeus — KLUGE 1967 Diplodactylus daemeus — COVENTRY 1970 Oedura lesueurii lesueurii — DAVEY 1970 (nec O. lesueurii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON) Diplodactylus dameum — GORMAN 1973 Turnerdactylus damaeus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989 Diplodactylus damaeus — KLUGE 1993 Diplodactylus damaeus — RÖSLER 1995: 80 Lucasium damaeum — COGGER 2000: 250 Diplodactylus damaeus — RÖSLER 2000: 77 Diplodactylus damaeus — GREER 2006 (online) Lucasium damaeum — OLIVER et al. 2007
Distribution	Australia (drier interior from SE Western Australia to S Queensland and W New South Wales and Victoria) Type locality: Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: NMV D7528 (formerly 57846)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): OLIVER 2007. Additional details (1553 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy: Assigned previously to the Diplodactylus stenodactylus group. The name Lucasius is preoccupied by a Crustacean and has also been used for a Hymenopteran). WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984 synonymized Lucasium with Diplodactylus. However, Lucasium was resurrected by Oliver et al. 2007. McGrath 2008 suggested to merge Lucasium and Diplodactylus into the genus Reliquodactylus, an unnecessary act that produced nothing but a new synonym and actually a nomen nudum (Rösler et al. 2018, forthcoming). Type species: Ceramodactylus damaeus is the type species of the genus Lucasium WERMUTH 1965.
Etymology	The genus Lucasium has been named after Arthur Henry Shakespeare LUCAS (1853-1936), british-born physician and herpetologist who moved to Australia in 1883. For more biographical details see Shea 2003.
References	CHIACCHIO, MICHELE; ANNEGRET GRIMM-SEYFARTH<br>KLAUS HENLE<br> AND JEAN-BAPTISTE MIHOUB 2020. Water availability as a major climatic driver of taxonomic and functional diversity in a desert reptile community. Ecosphere 11(7):e03190. 10.1002/ecs2.3190 - 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. Ferguson, Daniel J.; Mathieson, Michael T.; Eyre, Teresa J. 2015. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE BEADED GECKO Lucasium damaeum AND SMOOTH KNOB-TAILED GECKO Nephrurus levis AT THEIR EASTERN LIMIT IN SOUTHWEST QUEENSLAND. Queensland Naturalist 53 (1-3): 19-28 - get paper here Kinghorn, J. Roy 1924. Reptiles and batrachians from south and south-west Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 14 (3): 163-183 - get paper here Kinghorn, J. Roy 1929. Herpetological notes 1. Rec. Austral. Mus. 17 (2): 76-84 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1934. Australian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 77: 243-383 - get paper here Lucas, A. H. S., and C. Frost. 1896. Further preliminary notice of certain new species of lizards from central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 8:1-4. - get paper here McGrath, J. 2008. Geckos, Family Gekkonidae. In: Swan M. (Ed), Keeping & Breeding Australian Lizards. Mike Swan Herp Books, Lilydale, Australia, pp. 73–213 Oliver, Paul M.; Hutchinson, Mark N.; Cooper, Steven J.B. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships in the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray and resurrection of Lucasium Wermuth (Gekkota, Diplodactylidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 55( 3):197-210 - get paper here Pepper, Mitzy; Paul Doughty, J. Scott Keogh 2006. Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Australian Diplodactylus stenodactylus (Gekkota; Reptilia) species-group based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes reveals an ancient split between Pilbara and non-Pilbara D. stenodactylus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 539–555 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp. Schönecker, P. 2007. Biologie, Haltung und Nachzucht des australischen Bodengeckos Lucasium damaeum. Draco 8 (29): 31-38 - get paper here Shea, G.M. 2003. The HORN Expedition (1894) to Central Australia: New Directions in Australian Herpetology. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 52 (3/4): 245-273 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. 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.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/gekkonidae.pdf http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/lizards/geckos/geckos.htm http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/lthumblivgec.htm http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/90/paper/ZO07008.htm http://www.terraristikladen.com/galerie_diplodactylus_damaeus.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Gekkonidae/Lucasium/damaeum Google images

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