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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
SubspeciesStrophurus spinigerus spinigerus (GRAY 1842)
Strophurus spinigerus inornatus (STORR 1988) 
Common NamesE: South-western Spiny-tailed Gecko, Soft Spiny-tailed Gecko 
SynonymDiplodactylus spinigerus GRAY 1842: 53
Strophura spinigera — GRAY 1845
Phyllodactylus Spinigerus — DUMÉRIL 1851
Diplodactylus spinigerus — BOULENGER 1885: 99
Diplodactylus spinigerus spinigerus — LOVERIDGE 1934
Diplodactylus strophurus spinigerus — MITCHELL 1955
Strophurus spinigerus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984
Strophurus spinigerus — GREER 1989
Strophurus spinigerus — KLUGE 1993
Diplodactylus spinigerus — COGGER 2000: 225
Strophurus spinigerus — RÖSLER 2000: 115
Strophurus spinigerus — WILSON & SWAN 2010

Strophurus spinigerus spinigerus (GRAY 1842)
Diplodactylus spinigerus GRAY 1842
Diplodactylus spinigerus spinigerus — LOVERIDGE 1934
Diplodactylus spinigerus spinigerus — STORR 1988
Strophurus spinigerus spinigerus — RÖSLER 2000: 115
Strophurus spinigerus spinigerus — DE LISLE et al. 2013

Strophurus spinigerus inornatus (STORR 1988)
Diplodactylus spinigerus inornatus STORR 1988
Strophurus inornatus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989
Strophurus spinigerus inornatus — KLUGE 1991
Strophurus spinigerus inornatus — RÖSLER 2000: 115
Strophurus spinigerus inornatus — DE LISLE et al. 2013 
DistributionAustralia (S/SW Western Australia)

spinigerus: lower west coast and adjacent hinterland of Western Australia; Type locality: Houtman Abrolhos, WA.

inornatus: SE coast and interior of Western Australia. Type locality: Frank Hann National Park, Western Australia, 32°58'S, 120° 06'E.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost; formerly Zoological Society (London) 383, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), in error. Kluge (1967) erroneously considered that BMNH 64.10.6.7 (formerly xxi.5a), from Abrolhos, collected by J. Gilbert (one of two specimens collected by Gilbert from that locality, the other BMNH xxi.3b) as the holotype.
Holotype: WAM 78354, collected by B.G. Muir on 17 November 1980 [inornatus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A subspecies of D. spinigerus with a broad black median stripe on back and tail. (The species is distinguishable from all other Diplodactylus by the combination of two rows of long blackish spines on tail and very short or no spines above eye.) [from STORR 1988: 178]


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CommentGroup: Diplodactylus strophurus group (subgenus Strophurus) 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “spini” (= thorn) and “ger-” (= bearing).

D. s. inornatus was named after the Latin word for unadorned. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M. 2013. Geckos - The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press, 159 pp.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Glauert, L. 1956. Geckonidae (Part II). Western Australian Naturalist 5 (3): 49-56 - get paper here
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  • Greer, A.E. 1989. The biology and evolution of Australian lizards. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW 264 pp.
  • How, RA, Cowan, MA, Teale, RJ, Schmitt, LH. 2020. Environmental correlates of reptile variation on the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago, eastern Indian Ocean. J Biogeogr. 47: 2017– 2028 - get paper here
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  • Laube, Andreas and Robert Seipp. 1998. Strophurus spinigerus (Gray). Sauria (Suppl.) 20 (3): 435-440. - get paper here
  • Maryan, B., Gaikhorst, G., & Parkhurst, B. 2024. The terrestrial herpetofauna of the Zuytdorp coast and hinterland of Western Australia: Exceptional richness in a global biodiversity hotspot. Western Australian Naturalist, 33, 3
  • Mitchell, F. J. 1955. Preliminary account of the Reptilia and Amphibia collected by the National Geographic Society - Commonwealth Government - Smithsonian Institution Expedition to Arnhem Land (April to November, 1948). Rec. South Austral. Mus. 11: 373-408 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Studien an den Begattungsorganen der Geckos (Reptilia: Gekkota) - 3. Die Hemipenismorphologie von Arten der Gattungen Hoplodactylus FITZINGER 1843, Naultinus GRAY 1842, Oedura GRAY 1842, Rhacodactylus FITZINGER 1843 und Strophurus FITZINGER 1843 (Gek Gekkota 2: 220-248
  • Storr, G. M. 1988. The subspecies of Diplodactylus spinigerus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae). Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 14: 177-182 - get paper here
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