Phyllurus amnicola COUPER, SCHNEIDER, HOSKIN & COVACEVICH, 2000

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Higher Taxa	Carphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Phyllurus amnicola COUPER, SCHNEIDER, HOSKIN & COVACEVICH 2000: 255 Phyllurus amnicola — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Phyllurus amnicola — COGGER 2014: 272 Phyllurus amnicola — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 107
Distribution	Australia (Queensland, north of the Burdekin Gap) Type locality: Alligator Ck, Mt Elliot, Bowling Green Bay NP (19° 28’ S, 146° 59’ E), NEQ.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J64408, female
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: P. amnicola can be separated from its congeners by the following combined characters: large size (maximum SVL >110 mm); spinose body tubercules very small; leaf-shaped tail with anterior-most band broken but spanning full tail width; rostral partially divided with 5-6 scales along its dorsal margin. (Note: SVL includes three specimens measured by one of us (CJH) in the field (20 104mm, 7113mm). These measurements have been included in the diagnosis but not in the morphometrics for the species description.) (Couper et al. 2000) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 4463 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	From the Latin “dwelling by a river”, a reference to its type locality.
References	Bertola, Lorenzo V.; Megan Higgie, and Conrad J. Hoskin 2018. Resolving distribution and population fragmentation in two leaf-tailed gecko species of north-east Australia: key steps in the conservation of microendemic species. Australian Journal of Zoology 66 (2): 152-166 - 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 Couper, P. J., SCHNEIDER, C. J., HOSKIN, C. J. & J. A. COVACEVICH 2000. Australian leaf-tailed geckos: phylogeny, a new genus, two new species and other new data. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45 (2): 253-265 - get paper here HOSKIN, C. J. 2023. A new species of Phyllurus leaf-tailed gecko (Lacertilia: Carphodactylidae) from Scawfell Island, mid-east Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 5244 (3): 233-243 - get paper here Hoskin, C.J.; P. J. Couper & C. J. Schneider 2003. A New Species of Phyllurus (Lacertailia: Gekkonidae) and a Revised Phylogeny and Key for the Australian Leaf-tailed Geckos. Australian Journal of Zoology 51 (2): 153-164 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - 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 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/Phyllurus/amnicola Google images

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