Nephrurus stellatus STORR, 1968

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Higher Taxa	Carphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Stellate Knob-tail, Southern Knob-tailed Gecko
Synonym	Nephrurus stellatus STORR 1968 Nephrurus stellatus — KLUGE 1993 Nephrurus stellatus — COGGER 2000: 257 Nephrurus stellatus — OLIVER & BAUER 2011 Nephrurus stellatus — COGGER 2014: 268 Nephrurus stellatus — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 104
Distribution	Australia (South Australia: Eyre Peninsula, SC Western Australia: Yilgarn region) Type locality: 41 mi E of Southern Cross, 31° 25’ S, 120° 00’ E, W. A.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM R28363, A. Douglas, 15 January 1967; paratype: SAMA
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	From the Latin stellatus (starry), in reference to the color pattern. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Anonymous 1968. Type Specimens in the Western Australian Museum (Part 9). Annual Report, Western Australian Museum, 1967-68, Perth, pp. 62-64 Chapple, David G.; Reid Tingley, Nicola J. Mitchell, Stewart L. Macdonald, J. Scott Keogh, Glenn M. Shea, Philip Bowles, Neil A. Cox, John C. Z. Woinarski 2019. The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017. CSIRO, 663 pp. DOI: 10.1071/9781486309474 - 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. 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 Galliford, M. 1981. Notes on the starred knob-tailed gecko, Nephrurus stellatus, caught spotlighting. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 12: 33-34 Oliver, P.M. & Bauer, A.M. 2011. Systematics. and evolution of the Australian knob-tail geckos (Nephrurus, Carphodactylidae, Gekkota): Pleisomorphic grades and biome shifts through the Miocene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 (3): 664-674 - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1968. Nephrurus stellatus, A new knob-tailed gecko from southern Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 10: 180-182 - get paper here 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.ifrance.com/reptiles-passion/classification/amphisbene… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Gekkonidae/Nephrurus… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/296506622573943/ Google images

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