Hesperoedura reticulata

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Hesperoedura reticulata
Systematics
Superordinate : Scale lizards (Lepidosauria)
Order : Scale reptiles (Squamata)
without rank: Geckos (gekkota)
Family : Double- fingered geckos (Diplodactylidae)
Genre : Hesperoedura
Type : Hesperoedura reticulata
Scientific name of the  genus
Hesperoedura
Oliver , Bauer , Greenbaum , Jackman & Hobbie , 2012
Scientific name of the  species
Hesperoedura reticulata
( Bustard , 1969)

Hesperoedura reticulata is a tree-dwelling species of the gecko-like from the family of the double- fingered geckos (Diplodactylidae). It is the only species of the monotypical genus Hesperoedura and native to a small area in southwest Australia .

features

The species reaches a head-trunk length of a maximum of 7 centimeters. It is a medium-sized gecko species. The basic color of the animals is dark brown, the back is marked by a wide back stripe in light gray to gray-brown. The flanks and the upper sides of the limbs appear to be covered by a dark brown, close-meshed net. The abdomen and the undersides of the limbs are whitish. There are very small scales on the back that are much smaller than the ventral scales . The adhesive lamellas on the feet are widened, which are probably used for climbing trees.

distribution

Hesperoedura reticulata is only in southern Western Australia spread, a hotspot of biodiversity . The species lives on trees and, in contrast to the species of the double-fingered geckos that live on the ground, is dependent on this rather humid and wooded area.

Systematics and taxonomy

The species Hesperoedura reticulata has been included in the genus Oedura since it was first described in 1969 . In their work A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia , published in 1983, Wells and Wellington suggested that Hesperoedura reticulata be separated as a separate genus Amalosia along with three other species of the genus Oedura . The work was controversial and hardly implemented by the scientists studying Australia's geckos. In 2012, after molecular genetic studies by Oliver et al. the view of Wells and Wellington with regard to the genus Amalosia largely confirmed, since two of the four species they designate and two others can be grouped together as a separate clade . However, Oedura reticulata was not placed in the genus Amalosia as suggested by Wells and Wellington , but in the newly established monotypical genus Hesperoedura .

literature

  • H. Robert Bustard: Oedura reticulata, a new velvet gecko from south-west Western Australia. In: Western Australian Naturalist. Vol. 11, 1969, ISSN  0508-4865 , pp. 82-85, (first description).
  • Harold G. Cogger : Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia. 7th edition. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood 2014, ISBN 978-0-64310035-0 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Henkel, Wolfgang Schmidt: Geckos. Biology, husbandry, breeding. 2nd, completely revised edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3854-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harold G. Cogger: Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia. 7th edition. 2014.
  2. ^ Brian Bush, Brad Maryan, Robert Browne-Cooper, David Robinson: Reptiles and Frogs in the Bush. Southwestern Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands 2007, ISBN 978-1-920694-74-6 , pp. 121-122.
  3. ^ Richard Walter Wells, Cliff Ross Wellington: A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. In: Australian Journal of Herpetology. Vol. 1, No. 3/4. 1984, ISSN  0728-4683 , pp. 73-129.
  4. ↑ Paul M. Oliver, Aaron M. Bauer, Eli Greenbaum, Todd Jackman, Tara Hobbie: Molecular phylogenetics of the arboreal Australian gecko genus Oedura Gray 1842 (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae): Another plesiomorphic grade? In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Vol. 63, No. 2, 2012, pp. 255-264, doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2011.12.013 .

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