Gehyra pluraporosa BOURKE, DOUGHTY, TEDESCHI, OLIVER, MYERS & MORITZ, 2018
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Gehyra pluraporosa
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Northern Kimberley gecko |
| Synonym | Gehyra pluraporosa BOURKE, DOUGHTY, TEDESCHI, OLIVER, MYERS & MORITZ in DOUGHTY et al. 2018: 224 |
| Distribution | Australia (Western Australia) Type locality: King Edward River, Western Australia (14.75373°S; 126.21050°E). |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: WAM R174024 (male), collected on 7 March 2014 by Doughty, P., Ellis, R.J. & Catullo, R. Paratypes (4). All from Western Australia: WAM R174026 (subadult), King Edward River west (14.75413°S; 126.21037°E); WAM R176170 (CCM0918) (male), King Edward River campsite, 30 km north of Theda Station homestead (14.51903°S; 126.45811°E); WAM R176372 (CCM5962, TS32) (female) and WAM R176373 (CCM5963, TS33) (female), Bruces Ck, Theda Station (15.65862°S; 129.65944°E). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A Gehyra with small body size (average 43 mm, 39–46 mm SVL), no flap of skin between limbs, ~2/3 of dorsal half of rostral deeply furrowed with groove, internasal usually present, 2 postnasals with upper larger than lower, first supralabial not taller than second, 2 pairs of chin shields, snout short and straight to convex in lateral view, first digit of manus and pes without protruding claw, 6 or 7 divided subdigital lamellae on fourth toe, 25 or 26 pre-cloacal pores in males in chevron with outer edges curving anteriorly along thighs. Background colouration in life light purplish-brown; alternating pattern of short pale yellowish- white transverse bars to either side of midline formed by irregular-shaped pale blotches or spots, and dark poorly-defined bands on the dorsum with extensive pale yellow to orange white stippling over dorsal surfaces including head, limbs and tail. |
| Comment | Habitat. This species has been collected from sandstone rock formations in open woodlands. Its geographic range overlaps those of G. nana (lineage nana4), G. australis, G. koira and G. multiporosa, and it occurs sympatrically with the larger G. xenopus. Distribution: see map in Doughty et al. 2018: 203 (Fig. 1). |
| Etymology | pluraporosa is a combination of plurus (Latin) for ‘many’ and refers to numerous pre-cloacal pores observed in males of this species; also an allusion to the Kimberley G. variegata group species G. multiporosa which has a larger body size and over 50 pre-cloacal pores. |
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