Ron,
I am aware that the names have been synonymous for well over a decade and
putting this species in the Nephrurus complex makes complete sense, but I
too liked Underwoodisaurus. Thanks for the response.
Nathan Hall
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Subject: Re: [gecko]Underwoo...Nephr...wait...D'oh!
Nathan,
Underwoodisaurus has been considered a synonym of Nephurus since the
early 90's. I believe Dr. Aaron Bauer changed it. The only person that
uses it
still is Dr. Cogger in his Australian Herpetology books. I think it should
be
stable because a group of Australian scientists used Nephurus and not
Underwoodisaurus in a recent paper on Australian geckos. I kind of liked
Underwoodisaurus
because it was a name in honor of Garth Underwood a British Herpetologist
who
made a number of significant contributions to herpetology, especially
geckos.
He is the one responsible for the use of Cyrtodactylus instead of
Gymnodactylus. All of the popular North American Herpetology science
journals have a
fascinating biography of Dr. Underwood, if anyone is interested.
Ron Van Heest
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