Nephrurus vertebralis STORR, 1963

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Higher Taxa	Carphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Midline Knob-tail
Synonym	Nephrurus laevis (form 2) — GLAUERT 1961 Nephrurus vertebralis STORR 1963 Nephrurus vertebralis — KLUGE 1993 Nephrurus vertebralis — COGGER 2000: 257 Nephrurus vertebralis — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 179 Nephrurus vertebralis — OLIVER & BAUER 2011 Nephrurus vertebralis — COGGER 2014: 268 Nephrurus vertebralis — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 105
Distribution	Australia (C South Australia, C/S Western Australia) Type locality: Jibberding, 29° 58’ S, 116° 51’ E, W. A.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM R5231, Paratypes (8): WAM R1392, Bencubbin, WA; R1899, Landor, WA; R2490 [in error, R2940], Jibberding, WA; R5300, Wadgingarra, WA; R6191, Mukinbudin, WA; R13112, Yuin, WA; R13415, Kununoppin, WA; R17110, Warburton Range Mission, WA. One paratype in UMMZ.
Diagnosis
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Etymology	Presumably named after the Latin vertebra (backbone) plus the suffix -alis (belonging to), in reference to the vertebral stripe. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Barbora Augstenová, Eleonora Pensabene, Milan Veselý, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Michail Rovatsos 2021. Are Geckos Special in Sex Determination? Independently Evolved Differentiated ZZ/ZW Sex Chromosomes in Carphodactylid Geckos. Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (7) - get paper here Bauer, A.M. 2013. Geckos - The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press, 159 pp. 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 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 Pianka, E. R. 1969. Habitat specificity, speciation, and species density in Australian desert lizards. Ecology 50 (3): 498-502 - get paper here Pianka, E.R. & Vitt, L.J. 2003. Lizards - Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. University of California Press, Berkeley, 347 pp. [review in Copeia 2004: 955] - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1963. The gekkonid genus Nephrurus in Western Australia, including a new species and three new subspecies. J. Royal Soc. Western Australia, 46:85-90. - 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://blog.pensoft.net/2023/01/27/dicaprio-and-sheth-name-new-species-of… Google images

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