Lucasium steindachneri (BOULENGER, 1885)
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Lucasium steindachneri
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| Higher Taxa | Diplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Common Names | E: Box-patterned Gecko, Steindachner's Gecko |
| Synonym | Diplodactylus steindachneri BOULENGER 1885: 102 Diplodactylus stenurus WERNER 1910: 267 Diplodactylus steindachneri — ZIETZ 1920: 186 Diplodactylus steindachneri — WERMUTH 1965: 25 Ozziedactylus steindachneri — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989 Diplodactylus steindachneri — KLUGE 1993 Diplodactylus steindachneri — RÖSLER 1995: 81 Diplodactylus steindachneri — COGGER 2000: 227 Lucasium steindachneri — OLIVER et al. 2007 Lucasium steindachneri — COGGER 2014: 314 |
| Distribution | Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia?) Type locality: Sydney. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1876.3.4.10; also given as BMNH 76.3.4.10, Peak Downs, Qld, collected E. Damel, purchased Museum Godeffroy (previously listed as 76.3.4.58, Sydney, but this number is allocated to a Litoria lesueurii from Sydney, purchased from Museum Godeffroy). Holotype: IRSNB 2.022 [stenurus] |
| Diagnosis | Description: “Head short, very convex snout rounded-acuminate, longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, scarcely longer than the diameter of the orbit; ear-opening small, round. Body short; limbs moderate. Digits rather short, not much depressed, inferiorly with small, irregularly arranged tubercles; apical dilata tion small, the inferior plates rounded. Upper surfaces covered with minute granular scales, a little larger on the snout. Rostral twice as broad as high, without median cleft, emarginate poste riorly to receive a small lozenge-shaped plate bounded posteriorly by the large supero-anterior nasals; latter in contact; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and five nasals eleven upper and as many lower labials; mental trapezoid, moderate no chin-shields. Border of the upper eyelid with a fringe of conical scales. Abdominal scales very small, granular, considerably larger than the dorsal granules. Male with two conical scales on each side the base of the tail. Light brown above; a broad lighter, black-edged vertebral line, bifurcating on the neck, where it encloses a large rhomboidal black-edged spot; three black-edged ocelli on the light vertebral band, two on the back, one on the base of the tail a whitish, dark-edged streak from axilla to groin; sides with small light spots; lower surfaces white.” (Boulenger 1885) For measurements see Boulenger 1885: 102. |
| Comment | Group: Diplodactylus steindachneri group. Synonymized with D. jonathoni WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 by KLUGE (1993). |
| Etymology | Named after Franz Steindachner (1834-1919), Austrian zoologist. Obituary in Pietschmann (1919). |
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