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Curious how much they resemble Spiny Uros.
Thanks
Jeff!
This is really cool Jeff,
thanks for posting! I wish we could keep some Phyllurus here in the USA.
Julie Bergman
GGA lifetime member
www.geckoranch.com
Jeff Crocombe
wrote:
Some months
ago mention was made of a new gecko discovery in Australia. Here is some
basic information & two pics. The pics are scanned in from: “Gecko Goes
Public” UQ News 2003: November, 6.
A new species of Leaf-tailed
Gecko has been discovered in a remote area north-west of Townsville, in
North Queensland. Conrad Hoskins- a PhD student at the University of
Queensland first sighted the gecko in 2001 while studying skinks. The Gecko
has been formally described as the Gulburu Gecko Phyllurus gulbaru.
The
Gulbaru Gecko is a large leaf-tailed Gecko whose tail is atypically (for a
leaf-tailed gecko) quite long and cylindrical. It is found in two
sub-populations living in rocky rainforest and has a very limited
distribution of less than 14 square kilometres. It apparently has one of the
most restricted distributions of any Queensland reptile and is threatened by
loss of habitat throuigh unrestricted burning.
In 1998 Hoskin discovered
the Mt Elliot Gecko Phyllurus amnicola, also near Townsville; and is also in
the process of describing both a new frog species and a new skink species
from North Queensland.
More information can be found in Hoskin’s
paper:
C. J. Hoskin, P.J. Couper, and C. J. Schneider, “A New Species of
Phyllurus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) and a Revised Phylogeny and Key for the
Australian Leaf-tailed Geckos. Australian Journal of Zoology, 2003:51,
153-164.
Jeff Crocombe
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