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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