Gehyra occidentalis KING, 1984

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Kimberley Plateau Dtella
Synonym	Gehyra australis — KING 1983 (partim) Gehyra occidentalis KING 1984 Dactyloperus occidentalis — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Phyriadoria occidentalis — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989 Gehyra occidentalis — KLUGE 1993 Gehyra occidentalis — COGGER 2000: 240 Gehyra occidentalis — DOUGHTY et al. 2012
Distribution	Australia (Western Australia, Western Kimberley region) Type locality: Manning Gorge, Western Australia (16°44’S 125°57’E)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM R83711, (DR King, 3.xii.1980)
Diagnosis
Comment	Group: Belongs to the Gehyra australis species complex. Similar species: populations that may have been assigned to G. occidentalis have been described as Gehyra multiporosa.
Etymology	The specific name occidentalis (Latin) refers to the western distribution of this species.
References	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. DOUGHTY, PAUL; GAYLEEN BOURKE, LEONARDO G. TEDESCHI, RENAE C. PRATT, PAUL M. OLIVER, RUSSELL A. PALMER, CRAIG MORITZ 2018. Species delimitation in the Gehyra nana (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex: cryptic and divergent morphological evolution in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4403 (2): 201–244 - get paper here Doughty, Paul;, Russell Palmer, Mark J. Sistrom, Aaron M. Bauer and Stephen C. Donnellan, 2012. Two new species of Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) geckos from the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 27: 117-134 - get paper here 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 Horner, P. 2005. Gehyra koira sp. nov. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), a new species of lizard with two allopatric subspecies from the Ord-Victoria region of north-western Australia and a key to the Gehyra australis species complex. The Beagle 21: 165-174 - get paper here King M 1984. A new species of Gehyra (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from northern Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108 (1-2): 113-117 - get paper here Moritz, C. C., Pratt, R. C., Bank, S., Bourke, G., Bragg, J. G., Doughty, P., Keogh, J. S., Laver, R. J., Potter, S., Teasdale, L. C., Tedeschi, L. G. and Oliver, P. M. 2017. Cryptic lineage diversity, body size divergence, and sympatry in a species complex of Australian lizards (Gehyra). Evolution doi:10.1111/evo.13380 - 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.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Gekkonidae/Gehyra… Google images

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