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Nephrurus wheeleri LOVERIDGE, 1932

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Higher TaxaCarphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Southern banded knob-tailed gecko 
SynonymNephrurus laevis — LUCAS & LE SOUEF 1909 (partim)
Nephrurus wheeleri LOVERIDGE 1932
Nephrurus wheeleri wheeleri — STORR 1963
Nephrurus wheeleri — BAUER 1990: 153
Nephrurus wheeleri wheeleri — RÖSLER 2000: 97
Nephrurus wheeleri — COGGER 2000: 257
Nephrurus wheeleri — OLIVER & BAUER 2011
Nephrurus wheeleri — COGGER 2014: 269
Nephrurus wheeleri — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 105 
DistributionAustralia (Western Australia: Murchison River district)

Type locality: Yandil, 30 mi NE of Wiluna, W. A. (26°22'S, 119°49'E)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 32950, A.G. Paterson, September 1931; Paratypes: WAM R4459 (formerly MCZ R32955), BMNH, RMNH ? 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Metatarsals I-IV one and a half or fewer times length of corresponding phalanges; phalangeal formulae 2-3-4-4-3 (manus), 2-3-4-4-4 (pes); dorsal pattern of head and nape without three dark bands; postmental scales enlarged anteriorly; dorsum covered by conical scales surrounded by conical rosette scales; six or fewer interorbital scales; vertical series of enlarged, tuberculate preocular scales; tail moderate. (56, 61, 81). (Bauer 1990)


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CommentHabitat. Prefers stony soils around granite outcrops and breakaway country. Usually found active at night in rocky areas with rubble on the ground. During the day, can be found sheltering under tin or beneath pieces of iron on the soil.

Distribution: see map in Bauer 1990: 142 (Fig. 59) 
EtymologyNamed after the leader of the Harvard Australian expedition that found this species, Dr. William M. Wheeler. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M. 1990. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the Carphodactylini (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Bonner zool. Monogr. 30: 1-220 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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.
  • 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
  • Kealley, Luke; Paul Doughty, Danielle Edwards and Ian G. Brennan 2020. Taxonomic assessment of two pygopodoid gecko subspecies from Western Australia. Israel J Ecol Evol 66 (3-4): 126-141 - get paper here
  • Love, B. 2014. Die unsichtbare Arche. Reptilia (Münster) 19 (107): 14-15
  • Loveridge, A. 1932. New lizards of the genera Nephrurus and Amphibolurus from Western Australia. Proc. New England zool. Club 13:31-34.
  • MCGILL, BRENDAN 2015. Captive husbandry and breeding of the banded knob-tailed gecko (Nephrurus wheeleri cinctus) at Perth Zoo. Herpetological Bulletin (134) - get paper here
  • Oliver, P.M. & Bauer, A.M. 2011. Systematics. and evolution of the Australian knob-tail geckos (Nephrurus, Carphodactylidae, Gekkota): Pleisomorphic grades and biome shifts through the Miocene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 (3): 664-674 - get paper here
  • Storr, G. M. 1963. The gekkonid genus Nephrurus in Western Australia, including a new species and three new subspecies. J. Royal Soc. Western Australia, 46:85-90. - 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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