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Rhynchoedura ormsbyi WELLS & WELLINGTON, 1985

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Eastern Beaked Gecko 
SynonymRhynchoedura ormsbyi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 15
Rhynchoedura ormsbyi — PEPPER et al. 2011 
DistributionAustralia (New South Wales, Queensland: eastern lowlands, in the northern part of the Murray–Darling basin and throughout the Cobar Peneplain and Mulga Lands bioregions)

Type locality: Round Hill Nature Reserve, NSW.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: AMS R116979, formerly AM Field series no 16781 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Morphologically distinguished from R. sexapora, and R. mentalis by a combination of a single enlarged mental scale, two oblong enlarged pre-anal pores in contact, cloacal spurs formed by a single enlarged scale, and dorsal and ventral scales flat and similar in size; smaller species than R. ornata (max SVL 50 mm), and can be further distinguished by usual presence of a rostral with a strong medial groove. Scalation and proportions similar to Rhynchoedura eyrensis sp. nov. and Rhynchoedura angusta sp. nov. but dorsum covered with small to medium pale white to sulfur spots. R. ormsbyi also has a longer internarial distance (Inar) relative to head length, round rather than elongate mental scale (lower mental length/width [MenL/W] ratio), fewer adjacent mental scales (AdjMen), more internarial scales (IntNar), and longer mental groove than both R. angusta sp. nov. and R. eryensis sp. nov. 
CommentThis species has been previously considered as a synonym of R. ornata, but resurrected by PEPPER et al. 2011.

Habitat. Distributed in the low-lying eastern arid zone, compris- ing alluvial floodplains and mulga and eucalypt woodlands. 
EtymologyNamed for Anthony (Tony) Ormsby of Springwood, New South Wales, herpetologist and prominent Sydney divorce lawyer. 
References
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Günther, A. 1867. Additions to the knowledge of Australian reptiles and fishes. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 20: 45-57 - get paper here
  • Kinghorn, J. Roy 1924. Reptiles and batrachians from south and south-west Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 14 (3): 163-183 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1934. Australian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 77: 243-383 - get paper here
  • Pepper, Mitzy; Paul Doughty, Mark N. Hutchinson, J. Scott Keogh 2011. Ancient drainages divide cryptic species in Australia’s arid zone: Morphological and multi-gene evidence for four new species of Beaked Geckos (Rhynchoedura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (3): 810-822 - 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
  • Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp.
  • Storr, G.M., Smith, L.A. & Johnstone, R.E. 1990. Lizards of Western Australia III. Geckos and Pygopods. Western Australian Museum, Perth.
  • Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp.
  • Wells R W; Wellington C R 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1 (3-4): 73-129 [31 Dec 1983 on cover]
  • Wells, R. W. and Wellington, C. R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series (1): 1-61 [sometimes cited as 1983] - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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