| Higher Taxa | Carphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Common Names | E: Midline Knob-tail |
| Synonym | Nephrurus laevis (form 2) — GLAUERT 1961
Nephrurus vertebralis STORR 1963
Nephrurus vertebralis — KLUGE 1993
Nephrurus vertebralis — COGGER 2000: 257
Nephrurus vertebralis — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 179
Nephrurus vertebralis — OLIVER & BAUER 2011
Nephrurus vertebralis — COGGER 2014: 268 |
| Distribution | Australia (C South Australia, C/S Western Australia)
Type locality: Jibberding, 29° 58’ S, 116° 51’ E, W. A.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: WAM R5231, Paratypes (8): WAM R1392, Bencubbin, WA; R1899, Landor, WA; R2490 [in error, R2940], Jibberding, WA; R5300, Wadgingarra, WA; R6191, Mukinbudin, WA; R13112, Yuin, WA; R13415, Kununoppin, WA; R17110, Warburton Range Mission, WA. One paratype in UMMZ. |
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| References |
- Bauer, A.M. 2013. Geckos - The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press, 159 pp.
- 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
- Oliver, P.M. & Bauer, A.M. 2011. Systematics. and evolution of the Australian knob-tail geckos (Nephrurus, Carphodactylidae, Gekkota): Pleisomorphic grades and biome shifts through the Miocene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 (3): 664-674 - get paper here
- Pianka, E. R. 1969. Habitat specificity, speciation, and species density in Australian desert lizards. Ecology 50 (3): 498-502 - get paper here
- Pianka, E.R. & Vitt, L.J. 2003. Lizards - Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. University of California Press, Berkeley, 347 pp. [review in Copeia 2004: 955] - get paper here
- Storr, G. M. 1963. The gekkonid genus Nephrurus in Western Australia, including a new species and three new subspecies. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 46:85-90.
- Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
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