| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) | 
        | Subspecies |  | 
        | Common Names | E: Papua four-clawed gecko, Papua Dtella | 
        | Synonym | Gehyra papuana MEYER 1874 Gehyra papuana PETERS 1875 (fide KLUGE 1993, but probably in error)
 Gehyra oceanica — PETERS & DORIA 1878 (partim)
 Gehyra lampei ANDERSSON 1913: 67
 Gehyra lampei — DE ROOIJ 1915: 39
 Gehyra papuana — BRONGERSMA 1934 (partim)
 Peropus papuanus — CHRAPLIWY et al. 1961 (partim)
 Gehyra papuana — WERMUTH 1965: 36
 Peropus papuana — DRYDEN & TAYLOR 1969
 Gehyra papuana — KLUGE 1993
 Gehyra lampei — KLUGE 1993
 Gehyra lampei — RÖSLER 2000: 80
 Gehyra papuana — RÖSLER 2000: 80
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        | Distribution | Papua New Guinea, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Marianas Islands (?), Belau (?) 
 Type locality: New Guinea.
 
 lampei: Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea; Type locality: Bogadjim at Stephansort, German New Guinea [Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
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        | Reproduction | oviparous | 
        | Types | Holotype: MTD (= MTKD), destroyed (fide BAUER & GÜNTHER 1991: 303, citing OBST 1977) Holotype: MWNH 690 [lampei]
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        | Diagnosis |  | 
        | Comment | Synonymy: Has been synonymized with G. papuana by LOVERIDGE 1934 (adopted also by WERMUTH 1965: 36 and others). Confirmed by Paul Oliver pers. comm. to Oliver Tallowin, via Shai Meiri, 8 Oct 2014. 
 Similar species: Might have been mixed up with G. brevipalmata.
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        | Etymology | Named after its distribution in Papua New Guinea. | 
        | References | 
            Andersson, L.G. 1913. On a small collection of reptiles and batrachians from German New Guinea and some other herpetological notes. Jahrb. nassau. Verein Naturk. 66: 67-79 Bauer, A.M. & Günther,R. 1991. An annotated type catalogue of the geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in the Zoological Museum , Berlin. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 67: 279-310  - get paper herede Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp.  - get paper hereDryden, G.L. & TAYLOR, E.H. 1969. Reptiles from the Mariana and Caroline Islands. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 48 (8): 269-279  - get paper hereLoveridge, A. 1934. Australian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 77: 243-383  - get paper hereMeyer, A.B. 1874. Eine Mittheilung von Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140 [also published as a separate print with pages 1-17 with a different title in which “Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm” is replaced by “mir”]  - get paper herePeters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig and G. Doria. 1878. Catalogo dei retilli e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Alberts e A. A. Bruijn. nella sotto-regione Austro-Malese. Annali del Museo Civico de Storia Naturale di Genova. ser. 1, 13: 323-450  - get paper herePeters,W.H.C. 1874. Über neue Reptilien (Peropus, Agama, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Typhlops, Heterolepis) der herpetologischen Sammlung des Berliner zoologischen Museums. M. Ber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 159-164  - get paper hereRösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Rösler, H., Glaw, F.& R. Günther 2005. Aktualisierte Liste der Geckos von Neuguinea (Sauria: Geckonidae: Gekkoninae) mit vorläufiger Charakterisierung von neun Formen aus den Gattungen Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827, Gehyra Gray, 1834 und Nactus Kluge, 1983. Gekkota 5: 33-64  - get paper hereSkipwith, Phillip L. & Paul M. Oliver 2014. A new Gehyra (Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from New Guinea with unique caudal scalation. Zootaxa 3827 (1): 057–066  - get paper here | 
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