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Amalosia obscura (KING, 1985)

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Slim Velvet Gecko 
SynonymOedura rhombifera SMITH & JOHNSTONE 1981 (partim)
Oedura obscura KING 1985: 330
Amalosia obscura — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1989
Oedura obscura — KLUGE 1993
Oedura obscura — COGGER 2000: 265
Oedura obscura — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 96
Amalosia obscura — OLIVER et al. 2012
Amalosia obscura — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 120
Amalosia obscura — HOSKIN & COUPER 2023 
DistributionAustralia (Western Australia: NW Kimberley and adjacent islands)

Type locality: Mitchell Plateau, Western Australia (14°53’30”S 125°45’00”E)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: WAM R83706, (J Dell 27.vii.1982) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small slim dorsoventrally compressed gekko distinguished from all other Oedura by its size, scalation, colour and back pattern. No other Oedura have a banded pattern consisting of dark chocolate brown bands interspaced by fawn bands with small white spots occurring in the fawn bands. The only other Oedura species similar in size to O. obscura have a vertebral line in their back pattern, be it zig zag or straight (O. lesueurii, O. rhombifer, and O. reticulata). O. obscura also has slightly larger, round and flat dorsal scales, whereas, the other small Oedura have fine and granular dorsal scalation. Moreover, O. reticulata, diagnostically has a single post anal tubercle on each side of the tail, whereas, O. obscura has three tubercles. (King 1985)


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References
  • 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
  • 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
  • King,M. 1985. Three new species of Oedura (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the Mitchell Plateau of north Western Australia. Amphibia-Reptilia 5 (3-4): 329-337 [1984] - 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
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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