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Higher TaxaCarphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Broad-tailed Gecko, Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko 
SynonymLacerta Platura SHAW in WHITE 1790: 246
Lacerta Platura — SHAW & NODDER 1791: plate 65
Stellio phyllurus SCHNEIDER 1797: 31 (nom. subst. pro Lacerta Platura)
Stellio platurus — DAUDIN 1802
Agama grandoculis LACÉPÈDE 1804
Lacerta platura — HAMMER 1804
Geckoides platurus — PÉRON 1807
Phyllurus spinosus — GOLDFUSS 1820
Agama platyura MERREM 1820 (nom. subst. pro Lacerta Platura)
Agama discosura MERREM 1820 (fide BOULENGER 1885)
Stellio platuros MERREM 1820
Phyll(urus) novaehollandiae SCHINZ 1822 (nom. subst. pro Lacerta Platura)
Phyllurus Cuvieri BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT 1823 (nom. subst.)
Phyllurus cuvieri BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT 1825
P[hyllurus] whitii GRAY 1825
Phyllurus platurus — FITZINGER 1826: 47
Phyllura discosura — KAUP 1827
Phyllura grandoculis — KAUP 1827
Gymnodactylus platyurus — WAGLER 1828
Cyrtodactylus Platura — GRAY (in GRIFFITH & PIDGEON) 1831
Phyllurus Whitii — VAN DER HOEVEN 1833
Gecko platycaudus — SCHINZ 1834 (partim) (nom. subst.)
Gymnodactylus (Phyllurus) phyllurus — WIEGMANN 1834
Gymnodactylus phyllurus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 428
Phyllurus australis SWAINSON 1839
Gymnodactylus (Phyllurus) platurus — FITZINGER 1843
Phyllurus inermis GRAY 1845 (fide BOULENGER 1885)
Phyllurus platura — RÜPPELL 1845
Gymnodactylus Phyllurus — DUMÉRIL 1851
Gymnodactylus inermis — DUMÉRIL 1856
Gymnodactylus platurus — BOULENGER 1885: 49
Phyllurus platurus — LOVERIDGE 1934: 298
Phyllurus platurus — WERMUTH 1965: 148
Phyllurus platurus — COVACEVICH 1975: 294
Phyllurus platurus — KLUGE 1993
Phyllurus platurus — COUPER et la. 1993: 120
Phyllurus platurus — COGGER 2000: 271
Phyllurus platurus — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Phyllurus platurus — COGGER 2014: 276
Phyllurus platurus — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 113 
DistributionAustralia (New South Wales: Sydney Hawkesbury sandstone region)

Type locality: New South Wales.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH xxii.98a (probable type; now a cleared and stained osteological preparation; see Covacevich, 1975) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “A small leaf-tailed Phyllurus very similar to p caudiannulatus from which it may be distinguished readily by tail shape (depressed, broad, leaf-like original and regenerated tail vs conventional cylindrical original and regenerated tail*). Specimens without tails virtually indistinguishable although P. caudiannulatus is usually more spinose, especially on the head, than P. platurus and the two species occur in widely separated localities (mideastern N.S. W. vs mideastern Queensland). Distinguished from P. cornutus from southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales, with which it has been confused, by size (SV 95-9 (max) vs 140•0), absence of calcareous deposits on throat (present on skin covering bones of lower jaw in P. cornutus) and, less reliably, tubercles at flank (very small vs larger, rounded or flattened and strongly hooked in northern specimens).” (COVACEVICH 1975)


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CommentType species: Phyllurus novaehollandiae SCHINZ 1822 is the type species of the genus Phyllurus SCHINZ 1822. Phyllurus OKEN 1817 is a nomen nudum fide WERMUTH 1965: 148.

Caudal autotomy: Bauer & Russell surveyed autotomy in carphodactylid geckos, including Phyllurus. 
EtymologyPresumably named after the Greek platys (broad or flat) plus oura (tail) referring to the tail shape. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • Bauer, A.M. 1994. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Gekkonidae I (Australia). Das Tierreich, Vol. 108, W. de Gruyter & Co. (Berlin)
  • Bauer, A.M. 1999. Notes on John White's Journal of a Voyage to new South Wales (1790), a Classic of Australian Herpetology. International Society for the History and Bibliography of Herpetology 1 (1): 16-19 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M.;Russell, Anthony P. 1994. Is autotomy frequency reduced in geckos with "actively functional" tails? Herpetological Natural History 2 (2): 1-15
  • Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. G. M. 1825. Dictionnaire Classique d’Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 7. Rey et Gravier, Paris. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Couper, P.J.; Covacevich, J.A. & Mortiz, C. 1993. A review of the leaf-tailed geckos endemic to eastern Australia: a new genus, four new species, and other new data. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34 (1): 95-124 - get paper here
  • Covacevich, J. 1975. A review of the genus Phyllurus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 293-303 - get paper here
  • Doughty, Paul; Shine, Richard 1995. Life in two dimensions: natural history of the southern leaf-tailed gecko, Phyllurus platurus. Herpetologica 51 (2): 193-201 - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.M. C. and G. Bibron. 1836. Erpetologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 3. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 528 pp. - get paper here
  • Eleonora, P., Barbora, A., Lukáš, K., & Michail, R. 2024. Differentiated sex chromosomes, karyotype evolution and spontaneous triploidy in carphodactylid geckos. Journal of Heredity, esae010 - get paper here
  • Fitzinger, L. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften nebst einer Verwandschafts-Tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. Zoologischen Museums zu Wien. J. G. Heubner, Wien, 66 pp. - get paper here
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  • Gray, J.E. 1825. A synopsis of the genera of reptiles and Amphibia, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy, 10:193—217 - get paper here
  • Hoskin, C.J.; P. J. Couper & C. J. Schneider 2003. A New Species of Phyllurus (Lacertailia: Gekkonidae) and a Revised Phylogeny and Key for the Australian Leaf-tailed Geckos. Australian Journal of Zoology 51 (2): 153-164 - get paper here
  • LaCépède, B. G. E. L. 1804. Mémoire sur plusieurs animaux de la Nouvelle- Hollande dont la description n’a pas encore été publiée. Annales du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4:184-211 - get paper here
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  • Mebs, D. 1973. Drohreaktionen beim Blattschwanzgecko, Phyllurus platurus. Salamandra 9 (2): 71-74 - get paper here
  • Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien I (Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum). J. C. Kriegeri, Marburg, 191 pp. - get paper here
  • Mo, Matthew 2014. Habitat selection of the Broad-tailed Gecko Phyllurus platurus in an urban Sydney bushland remnant. Australian Zoologist 37(1): 95-101. DOI:10.7882/AZ.2014.002 - get paper here
  • Mo, Matthew 2015. Herpetofaunal community of the constructed Lime Kiln Bay Wetland, south Sydney, New South Wales. Victorian Naturalist 132 (3): 64-72 - get paper here
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