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<emphasis id="BE7547AF67407FDFA73A846DFE14D713" italics="true">Diplodactylus galeatus</emphasis>
Kluge, 1973
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<figureCitation id="8AE7556F734566239EDE01D463E1C6F4" captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Colour-pattern variation in the Diplodactylus galeatus species complex: A, B Diplodactylus galeatus from Coober Pedy, SA (P. McDonald, A. Fenner), C, D Diplodactylus fyfei sp. nov. from foothills of Mt Beddome on New Crown Station, NT (P. McDonald, A. Fenner); E, F D. tjoritjarinya sp. nov. from Tjoritja National Park, Northern Territory (P. McDonald)." figureDoi="10.3897/vz.74.e128775.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1144768">Figures 5 A, B</figureCitation>
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<comment id="E271C398599647949F46E234713E38B7">Southern mesa gecko</comment>
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.
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collected on the
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,
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(
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Diagnosis from other species in the
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complex.
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<taxonomicName id="C4076AF58AAAD4C1E69637A17FE4207E" authorityName="Kluge" authorityYear="1973" class="Squamata" family="Diplodactylidae" genus="Diplodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="galeatus">
<emphasis id="712EA2A48EDCB774CC9F260123DCD9F1" italics="true">Diplodactylus galeatus</emphasis>
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may be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="86EE634E7091EDF86B01935035A73CF1" italics="true">D. tjoritjarinya</emphasis>
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(see below) by the larger ear opening (usually&gt; 6 % of head width or ≥
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in diameter in adults versus usually &lt;6 % of head width or ≤
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in diameter in
<taxonomicName id="C7DC7A1F8B35FB66FD2BB4FFD5210FBD" authorityName="McDonald &amp; Fenner &amp; Torkkola &amp; Oliver" authorityYear="2024" class="Squamata" family="Diplodactylidae" genus="Diplodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tjoritjarinya" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="81B598BB35955686E77C43777D9F884B" italics="true">D. tjoritjarinya</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="5470BFEA33EF0A6C2C96ED999A99A052" bold="true">
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), the presence of dorsal blotches descending ≥ 1 / 4 distance down torso when animal is viewed in lateral profile (versus typically descending ~ 1 / 8 down torso in
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<emphasis id="C052C854E198202654D194E592D19CA7" italics="true">D. tjoritjarinya</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="98353E8C454162EB2F2491DA87A8C673" bold="true">
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), the presence of large white spots (&gt; 3 scales in diameter) in the dorso-lateral region often arranged as mid-lateral row of portholes (versus smaller spots only), and by the dark red background colouration (versus pinkish red or red-brown).
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<emphasis id="7D866226CE5BE79AFA25F51C67F2BC7F" italics="true">Diplodactylus galeatus</emphasis>
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may be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="C14CCC0F685CD6D8783CCA1CB329A71C" italics="true">D. fyfei</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F39BB10F7C0A09420752550FAB92869B" bold="true">
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by the smaller relative rostral scale height (usually ≤ 2.2 % of
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versus usually&gt; 2.2 %
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in
<taxonomicName id="C610432FCF3C889CF75976386E56D776" authorityName="McDonald &amp; Fenner &amp; Torkkola &amp; Oliver" authorityYear="2024" class="Squamata" family="Diplodactylidae" genus="Diplodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fyfei" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="63C006458637D51DA929DC159C0B5A70" italics="true">D. fyfei</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="88117AC611402C02DB7C7668B98FCEC3" bold="true">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="F0DAA133596F18D9A18215F1E4498BCA" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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).
<taxonomicName id="B7E26CE5F1C10370EFAAAEC6B4D39445" authorityName="Kluge" authorityYear="1973" class="Squamata" family="Diplodactylidae" genus="Diplodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="galeatus">
<emphasis id="1FA9F61ADF2BFB2BDD4BEBB39313A632" italics="true">Diplodactylus galeatus</emphasis>
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further differs from the very similar
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<emphasis id="6814F9C96FC2EE6447DE3230B1324DFD" italics="true">D. fyfei</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="5483492E0336145B270CFE8A57034777" bold="true">
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in at least 20 putatively fixed differences in the mitochondrial
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locus (see Table
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).
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A medium-sized (to
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)
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<emphasis id="600DBF33953AD4EBFFEE43AF1F4D12D3" italics="true">Diplodactylus</emphasis>
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with a robust build; head moderately wide (
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/
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mean = 0.65, range = 0.560.74) and deep (
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/
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mean = 0.44, range = 0.380.54); eyes large (
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mean =
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, range = 2.84.1); external ear opening relatively large (mean headW / ear = 0.08, range = 0.040.11). Supralabials much larger than bordering loreals, wider than high and decreasing in height posteriorly, first supralabial slightly taller or equal in height to second; infralabials 1012; nostril surrounded by rostral scale, supranasals 2 and postnasals 35; relatively low rostral scale (
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/
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mean = 0.021, range =
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), rostral crease usually present and descending one quarter to halfway from top of scale; mental scale lanceolate in shape and always longer than wide.
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<paragraph id="D1927BF3FFD03AF1A20F5D88FFAD5197">
Scales on dorsum enlarged, up to twice diameter of those on lateral and ventral surfaces; dorsal head scales larger relative to neighbouring sides of head; scales on throat small and granular. Subdigital lamellae in single row of enlarged rounded scales; apical pad pair prominent and enlarged, much wider than proximal width of digit. Males have 37 cloacal spurs (median 5); females have rounded scales where the male spurs occur. Original tail short (mean Tail %
<abbrev id="ABBRID0E3JBI" xlink_title="snout-vent length">SVL</abbrev>
mean = 0.51, range = 0.450.56) and thick, cylindrical, with regular annuli of slightly enlarged tubercles on dorsal and upper lateral surfaces.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="09FA0B18C697BC1113F42A1D38A32DA2">Top of head pale and yellowish-brown bordered posteriorly by a rounded dark line, dorsum dark red brown with four to five dark-edged pale blotches (rarely merged to form a continuous vertebral stripe; 14 % of individuals) that descend ≥ 1 / 4 distance down torso when animal is viewed in lateral profile, lateral region of torso with numerous white dots (including some&gt; 3 scales wide) and frequently arranged in mid-lateral row, limbs usually with scattered white spots, and ventral surface white.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EBKBI" type="Particulars of holotype">
<paragraph id="4A38021B32064FCD537F859D133A806E">
<heading id="011E74BBFDB824C7554E5775EEF9126F" reason="title">
Particulars of
<typeStatus id="D13005892F63921B2DFD746A37E54775" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
.
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A660D784C66A832E6916AB13868EA845">
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<collectionCode id="7CA946D396280DF9925FE8BEB8B3B572" country="Australia" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34982" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34982" name="South Australia Museum" type="Museum">SAMA</collectionCode>
</named-content>
R 973
<specimenCount id="02023EA65C08ED694CEF5E635DBFCDBD" count="973" type="male">adult male</specimenCount>
(all measurements in millimetres):
<abbrev id="ABBRID0ELKBI" xlink_title="snout-vent length">SVL</abbrev>
= 52.7,
<abbrev id="ABBRID0EPKBI" xlink_title="Trunk length, between axilla and groin">TrunkL</abbrev>
= 23.4,
<abbrev id="ABBRID0ETKBI" xlink_title="tail length, from cloaca to tip">TailL</abbrev>
= 27.0, TArmL = 20.3, TlegL = 25.0,
<abbrev id="ABBRID0EXKBI" xlink_title="head length, measured obliquely from tip of snout to angle of lower jaw">HeadL</abbrev>
= 14.8,
<abbrev id="ABBRID0E2KBI" xlink_title="head width, at widest point">HeadW</abbrev>
= 10.4,
<abbrev id="ABBRID0E6KBI" xlink_title="proportion of rostral crease relative to rostral scale height">RosCre</abbrev>
= 0.0, SupNas = 2, SupLab = 9, InfLab = 11, Cspurs = 6, 4 Flam = 7; 4 Tlam = 8.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EDLBI" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="CF642AF6706F5525F9FE2EB160ADE90F">
<heading id="D7A6A68AB1C04EDAFF28C1549D23D7CC" reason="title">Etymology.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="CC21C12F3D4C0B77A8EE3243D20085EE">
Derived from the Latin word
<emphasis id="6162ECD34742092F45C45D78B8189075" italics="true">galea</emphasis>
meaning covered with a helmet in reference to the dark occipital cap.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0ELLBI" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="ECDE871B56E9B9CBC83C650B7C12BA71">
<heading id="32D0E4D9FCC0C4F6994B3458DB74E194" reason="title">Distribution and ecological notes.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E623EF689A21F36B76BB95CA51D55161">
Endemic to
<collectingRegion id="E29C5CEEB358399FB3B274C69D2E32FE" country="Australia" name="South Australia">South Australia</collectingRegion>
and restricted to the western Stony Plains
<abbrev id="ABBRID0ERLBI" xlink_title="Interim Biogeographic Regionalisations of Australia">IBRA</abbrev>
region (Thackway and Creswell 1995). Recorded from Prominent Hill in the south, north to approximately
<quantity id="768E13EBB78601195CDA8FE22FDE6405" metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.5" unit="km" value="15.0">15 km</quantity>
north of Iwantja and east to near Old Peake Telegraph Station.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="AB1BDF8C7BA02734DB74CF293F032128">
Occurs on and around dissected tablelands or breakaway hills with sparse tussock grass and lower shrub layers and a very sparse
<taxonomicName id="1BF0F18F63DE0B74EC908D525B9C4D11" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C17456F1FC52B694BF1DA53D26F0B339" italics="true">Acacia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shrub overstory. Observed to be abundant in some areas of its range, with large numbers of specimens observed in a relatively short period of spotlighting in the Breakaways near Coober Pedy (P. Oliver pers. obs.). Recorded in syntopy with
<taxonomicName id="EBEDDE5890B82AF761E75C551DF56A1C" authorityName="Hutchinson, Sistrom, Donnellan &amp; Hutchinson" authorityYear="2014" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Gehyra" kingdom="Animalia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="versicolor">
<emphasis id="F53BB889809EC5BF3029E92B447ADDFB" italics="true">Gehyra versicolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<emphasis id="5A9AB9DEBA79A75F93086E22B092A64F" italics="true">
<taxonomicName id="E121987DC88018BA893823ACC05252ED" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1845" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Heteronotia" kingdom="Animalia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="binoei">Heteronotia binoei</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0ETMBI" type="Suggested IUCN Red List status">
<paragraph id="91F1AE8C0F4580921638D62D4B1E76EF">
<heading id="1B3E5C56F6ACA3A4EF40682300A1C7D6" reason="title">Suggested IUCN Red List status.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C5E3CFB36476AFDE1355A23A2E6A21F3">
<taxonomicName id="60809DDDDE42D975D40308C436C27933" authorityName="Kluge" authorityYear="1973" class="Squamata" family="Diplodactylidae" genus="Diplodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="galeatus">
<emphasis id="73FC54D0C8E8C4AA2D55F122F370B0CD" italics="true">Diplodactylus galeatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a moderately large range (EOO
<quantity id="B4B3BAB83966708ADD1484BE56739363" metricMagnitude="7" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.3011999999999997" unit="km" value="23012.0">23,012 km</quantity>
<superScript id="513D3B19FB25CB8804563B800241DBB8">2</superScript>
) spanning areas that are sparsely inhabited, not subject to widespread habitat destruction or disturbance and including several protected areas (6.96 % of the Stony Plains bioregion). Based on these data we suggest that it be considered Least Concern.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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