Amalosia lesueurii (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1836)

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Higher Taxa	Diplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Lesueur's Velvet Gecko, Lesueur's Gecko
Synonym	Phyllodactylus Lesueurii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 392 (partim) Diplodactylus (Pachyurus) Lesueurii — FITZINGER 1843 Oedura rhombifer GRAY 1845 Phyllodactylus LeSueurii — DUMÉRIL et al. 1854 Oedura lesueurii — BOULENGER 1885: 107 Oedura Leseurii — STRAUCH 1887 Oedura lesueuri — BOETTGER 1893 Phyllodactylus lesueurii — CAMP 1923 Oedura lesuerii — BARRETT 1950 Oedura lesueurii lesueurii — COGGER 1957 Oedura lessueri GABE & SAINT GIRONS 1966 Oedura lesueurii lesueurii lesueurii — BUSTARD 1967 Amalosia lesueurii — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984 Amalosia phillipsi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984 Amalosia phillipsi — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Oedura lesueurii — KLUGE 1993 Oedura lesueurii — COGGER 2000: 263 Oedura lesueurii — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 96 Amalosia lesueurii — OLIVER et al. 2012 Amalosia lesueurii — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 119 Amalosia lesueurii — HOSKIN & COUPER 2023
Distribution	Australia (E New South Wales, SE Queensland) Type locality: “Nouvelle-Guinée et à la Nouvelle-Hollande”’ restricted to Kangaroo Is., Qld. (although Cogger 1983 erroneously says Kangaroo Island, South Australia).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype: MNHN-RA 0268, from Kangaroo Is., S. A. (from Australia and New Guinea in original description), designation by Cogger, H. G. (1983). Paralectotypes: from Port Jackson, N. S. W., King George’ s Sound, W. A. and New Guinea; for remaining paralectotype see Diplodactylus vittatus]; see also synonymy of Diplodactylus vittatus Gray, 1832 (fide COGGER 1983).
Diagnosis
Comment	Type species: Phyllodactylus Lesueurii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836 is the type species of the genus Amalosia Wells and Wellington, 1984: 75. The type series of Phyllodactylus Lesueurii Duméril & Bibron 1836 seems to be composite. For further discussion of this and additional references see Bauer 1994. Oedura jacovae sp. nov. is not conspecific with the lectotypes of O. rhombifer (BMNH xxii.3a) or O. lesueurii (MNHN 268). Karyotype: 2n = 36 (King 1987)
Etymology	Named after Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846), a French naturalist, artist, and explorer who travelled to both Australia and lived in North America (1815-1837). The genus name Amalosia means tender, soft (Wells & Wellington 1984: 75).
References	Abayarathna T and Webb JK 2021. Do Incubation Temperatures Affect the Preferred Body Temperatures of Hatchling Velvet Geckos? Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:727602 - get paper here Barrett, Charles 1950. Reptiles of Australia. Cassell & Co., London, 168 pp. Bauer, A.M. 1994. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Gekkonidae I (Australia). Das Tierreich, Vol. 108, W. de Gruyter & Co. (Berlin) Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Bustard, H.R. 1967. Reproduction in the Australian gekkonid genus Oedura Gray 1842 Herpetologica 23 (4): 276-284. - 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. Colgan, D. J.; D. O’Meally and R. A Sadlier 2009. Phylogeographic patterns in reptiles on the New England Tablelands at the south-western boundary of the McPherson Macleay Overlap. D. J. Colgan; D. O’Meally and R. A Sadlier. Australian Journal of Zoology 57: 317-328 - 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 Doody, J. Sean; Peter Harlow, Donna Douglass, Jason D. Thiem, Ben Broadhurst, Dane Trembath, Jerry Olsen, Esteban Fuentes, and Tony Rose 2014. Patterns of Predation and Antipredator Behavior in the Australian Water Dragon, Physignathus lesueurii. Herp. Cons. Biol. 9 (1): - get paper here Duméril, A.M. C. and G. Bibron. 1836. Erpetologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 3. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 528 pp. - 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 Laube, A. & Langner, C. 2007. Australische Samtgeckos. Die Gattung Oedura. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. - 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 Schmida, G. 2007. Betrachtungen zu den australischen Samtgeckos der Gattung Oedura. Draco 8 (29): 22-30 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. 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/Oedura/lesueurii http://zoologia.puce.edu.ec/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2… http://www.ifrance.com/reptiles-passion/classification/amphisbene… http://reptiles.passion.free.fr/classification/amphisbene/amphisbaenidae… Google images

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