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Lucasium immaculatum (STORR, 1988)

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Pale-striped Ground Gecko 
SynonymDiplodactylus stenodactylus — KLUGE 1967 (partim)
Diplodactylus jonathoni WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985
Diplodactylus immaculatus STORR 1988: 217
Turnerdactylus jonathoni — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989
Diplodactylus immaculatus — COGGER 2000: 219
Lucasium immaculatum — OLIVER et al. 2007 
DistributionAustralia (central interior of Northern Territory, west central interior of Queensland)

Type locality: 5 km E Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, in 19° 40' S, 134°14' E. [Australia]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: WAM R21408; paratypes (n=13): WAM
Holotype: AMS R95612 [Diplodactylus jonathoni Wells & Wellington 1985] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small member of the Diplodactylus stenodactylus group (Kluge 1967: 1030) with a pale vertebral stripe, rostral widely precluded from nostril, and moderately large subdigital apical plates. Most like D. stenodactylus but differing in coloration (little or no facial pattern, few or no pale spots on body, and with lateral branches to vertebral stripe) and having lower rostral, lower fIrst upper labial, larger posterior supranasal, larger subdigital granules, larger apical plates and fewer pre-anal pores. (Storr 1988)


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CommentGroup: Diplodactylus stenodactylus group.

Synonymy: See Bauer 1994 for a discussion of nomenclatorial problems concerning the priority of Diplodactylus jonathoni over Diplodactylus immaculatus.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin immaculatum for unspotted. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M. 1994. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Gekkonidae I (Australia). Das Tierreich, Vol. 108, W. de Gruyter & Co. (Berlin)
  • 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
  • Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. 2023. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne - get paper here
  • Oliver, Paul M.; Hutchinson, Mark N.; Cooper, Steven J.B. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships in the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray and resurrection of Lucasium Wermuth (Gekkota, Diplodactylidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 55( 3):197-210 - get paper here
  • Storr, G. M. 1988. Three new Diplodactylus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) from the and zone of Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 14: 217-233. - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • VANDERDUYS, ERIC; CONRAD J. HOSKIN, ALEX S. KUTT, JUSTIN M. WRIGHT, STEPHEN M. ZOZAYA 2020. Beauty in the eye of the beholder: a new species of gecko (Diplodactylidae: Lucasium) from inland north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 4877 (2): 291–310 - get paper here
  • Wells, R. W. and Wellington, C. R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series (1): 1-61 [sometimes cited as 1983] - get paper here
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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