AROD > Reptiles / Squamata / Gekkonidae / Saltuarius
Leaf-tailed geckos
Saltuarius
- Couper, Covacevich and Moritz, 1993
Pronunciation: | SALT-you-ARE-ee-uss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Etymology: | "From the Latin - 'keeper of the forest'."1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reproductive modes:
Oviparous - 7 out of 7 Australian species Size range: Smallest Australian species: Moritz's leaf-tailed gecko (Saltuarius moritzi) at 8.55 cm Longest Australian species: northern leaf-tailed gecko (Saltuarius cornutus) at 14.4 cm |
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Number of Australian species: | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- Couper, PJ; Covacevich, JA; & Moritz, C. (1993). A review of the leaf-tailed geckos endemic to eastern Australia: a new genus, four new species, and other new data. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 34(1):95-124. - search web for this article
- Hoskin, Conrad J. & Couper, Patrick (2013). A spectacular new leaf-tailed gecko (Carphodactylidae: Saltuarius) from the Melville Range, north-east Australia. Zootaxa, 3717(4):543-558. - search web for this article