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Amalosia jacovae (COUPER, KEIM & HOSKIN, 2007)

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Clouded Gecko 
SynonymOedura jacovae COUPER, KEIM & HOSKIN 2007
Oedura jacovae — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 94
Amalosia jacovae — OLIVER et al. 2012
Amalosia jacovae — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 119
Amalosia jacovae — HOSKIN & COUPER 2023 
DistributionAustralia (SE Queensland)

Type locality: Mt Coot–tha, Brisbane (27°29’S, 152°57’E)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: QM J77269, L. D. Keim, March 2002. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Oedura jacovae sp. nov. is a slender, medium-sized (max SVL = 62mm), well-patterned velvet gecko that occurs in SEQ and is most closely allied to O. lesueurii and O. rhombifer. It is distinguished from its Queensland congeners by the following characters: 1st supralabial narrower than, or subequal to, the 2nd supralabial; 1st and 2nd supralabials equal in height or 2nd supralabial taller than 1st; generally with well-developed basal webbing between 3rd and 4th toe on hindlimb; a dark, zigzag dorsolateral pattern (not strongly contrasting with base colour) encloses a broad, pale vertebral zone which is broken by 1–5 transverse lines between the fore and hindlimbs; flanks, limbs and head without pale spots. 
CommentHabitat: dry open Eucalyptus forest, coastal woodlands and heaths, rocky outcrops, and urban areas bordering bushland. 
Etymologyjacovae; for Jeanette Adelaide Covacevich, a former senior curator at the Queensland Museum, for her many contributions to Australian herpetology. 
References
  • 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
  • COUPER,PATRICK J.; LAUREN D. KEIM & CONRAD J. HOSKIN 2007. A new velvet Gecko (Gekkonidae: Oedura) from south-east Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 1587: 27–41 - get paper here
  • HOSKIN, C. J., & COUPER, P. J. 2023. Revision of zigzag geckos (Diplodactylidae: Amalosia) in eastern Australia, with description of five new species. Zootaxa 5343(4), 301-337 - get paper here
  • Oliver, Paul M.; Aaron M. Bauer, Eli Greenbaum, Todd Jackman, Tara Hobbie 2012. Molecular phylogenetics of the arboreal Australian gecko genus Oedura Gray 1842 (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae): Another plesiomorphic grade? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63 (2): 255-264 - 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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