Oedura gracilis KING, 1985

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Higher Taxa	Diplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Gracile Velvet Gecko
Synonym	Oedura marmorata — SMITH & JOHNSTONE 1981 Oedura gracilis KING 1985 Oedura gracilis — KLUGE 1993 Oedura gracilis — COGGER 2000: 262 Oedura gracilis — OLIVER et al. 2012
Distribution	Australia (Western Australia: NW Kimberley and adjacent islands) Type locality: Mitchell Plateau, Western Australia (14°53’30”S 125°45’00”E)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM R83709, (R How, 21.i.1982)
Diagnosis
Comment	Karyotype: 2n = 38 (King 1987)
Etymology	Named after Latin “gracilis”, meaning small or lanky, or gracile.
References	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 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 Laver RJ, Doughty P, Oliver PM. 2017. Origins and patterns of endemic diversity in two specialized lizard lineages from the Australian Monsoonal Tropics (Oedura spp.). J Biogeogr. 00: 1–12 - get paper here Oliver PM, McDonald PJ. 2016. Young relicts and old relicts: a novel palaeoendemic vertebrate from the Australian Central Uplands. R. Soc. open sci. 3: 160018 - 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 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/gracilis Google images

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