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Underwoodisaurus milii BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, 1823

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Higher TaxaCarphodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Thick-tailed Gecko, Barking Gecko 
SynonymGecko Dorreensis PÉRON 1807 (nomen oblitum)
Phyllurus milii BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT 1823: 183
Cyrtodactylus Nilii GRAY (in GRIFFITH & PIDGEON) 1831
Gymnodactylus Miliusii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 430
Gymnodactylus (Anomalurus) Miliusii — FITZINGER 1843
Phyllurus miliusii — GRAY 1845
Gymnodactylus vittatus — ANONYMOUS 1857 (non G. v. LICHTENSTEIN 1856)
Phyllurus Myliusii — GRAY 1867
Phyllurus Millius — SCHMELTZ 1877
Phyllurus Blavieri DE ROCHEBRUNE 1884
Gymnodactylus miliusii — BOULENGER 1885: 48
Gymnodactylus miliusii — LUCAS & FROST 1894: 26
Gymnodactylus asper BOULENGER 1913
Gymnodactylus milii — LOVERIDGE 1934
Gymnodactylus milusii BARRETT 1950
Gymnodactylus (Underwoodisaurus) milii — WERMUTH 1965
Phyllurus mili — BUSTARD 1967
Underwoodisaurus milii — BUSTARD 1970
Underwoodisaurus husbandi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984
Underwoodisaurus asper — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985
Nephrurus milii — BAUER 1990
Underwoodisaurus milii — COGGER 2000: 275
Nephrurus milii — LAUBE & LANGNER 2007
Underwoodisaurus milii — OLIVER & BAUER 2011
Underwoodisaurus milii — COGGER 2014: 283
Phyllurus milii — ELLIS et al. 2018: 55
Underwoodisaurus milii — ELLIS et al. 2018: 57
Underwoodisaurus milii — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 117
Nephrurus milii — HOW et al. 2020 
DistributionAustralia (Southern Australia from central Queensland through New South Wales, N Victoria, South Australia and much of semi-arid Western Australia, as far north along the coast as Shark Bay. Scattered specimen recorded from Onslow, Western Australia and the S Northern Territory.
Records from N Queensland are probably in error.

Type locality: “Australasie sur les rives de la baie des Chiens-Marins’ [= ’Shark Bay, W. A.]; Neotype locality: ‘‘Bernier Island, Shark Bay’’.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: Iconotype in Bory de Saint-Vincent (1823). Neotype: WAM R34085, ‘Bernier Island, Shark Bay [in error, actually Dorre Is, Shark Bay]’, WA [25°09'S, 113°06'E], R.I.T. Prince, 17 April 1969, designated by Shea (2002); The original type was presumed lost fide COGGER 1983. Shea (2002) demonstrated that the type of P. milii was, in fact, a specimen illustration of Nephrurus levis occidentalis but maintained current usage of the epithet milii for the species of Underwoodisdaurus to which it has uniformly been applied, and designated a neotype to fix the name.
Neotype: WAM R34085, ‘Bernier Island, Shark Bay [in error, actually Dorre Is, Shark Bay]’, WA [25°09'S, 113°06'E], R.I.T. Prince, 17 April 1969, designated by Shea (2002) [dorreensis]
Holotype: AMS ? (given as Australian Museum Field Series = AMFS 25399). Collected at 12.5 km SW of Milbrodale, N.S.W. (road distance) by R. W. Wells, on 22 September, 1982. Paratypes: AMFS 25400-25404 [husbandi] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: The most inclusive clade containing U. milii (Bory de Saint-Vincent 1823), but not N. asper or Uvidicolus gen. nov. sphyrurus. A monotypic genus containing only milii (Bory de Saint-Vincent 1825). A moderately large (Adult SVL to 100 mm) genus of carphodactylid geckos with transverse subdigital lamellae, anterior loreals minute and strongly differentiated from posterior loreals,labial scales much larger than neighboring scales, mean of 26 pre-sacral vertebrae, phalangeal formula unreduced (2.3.4.5.3/2.3.4.5.4), and original tail long with 33–42 postsacral vertebrae, post pygal pleurapophysis absent or reduced, rounded or weakly depressed in cross section, and gradually tapering to tip lacking aterminal ‘knob’.


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CommentType species: Phyllurus milii BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT 1823 is the type species of the genus Underwoodisaurus WERMUTH 1965. Note that Gymnodactylus Miliusii Duméril and Bibron, 1836 (= P. milii Bory de Saint-Vincent 1823) is the type species of the genus Anomalurus Fitzinger, 1843 (which is pre-occupied by Anomalurus Waterhouse 1843 (Mammalia)). 
EtymologyNamed after Baron Pierre Bernard Milius (1773-1829), a sailor, naturalist, and civil servant who took part in an exploratory voyage (1804) of the Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean, under Nicolas Baudin, during which he became friends with Bory.

U. husbandi has been named after Mr Grant Husbandof Sydney in recognition of his many contributions of reptile specimens to the Australian Museum. 
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