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Hoskin's ring-tailed gecko |
Tozer's Gap, Queensland Photo © Ray Lloyd |
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Cyrtodactylus hoskini | |||||||||
Pronunciation | SIR-toe-DAK-till-us HOSS-kinn-ee | ||||||||
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Etymology |
Cyrtodactylus: 'curved-toe'
hoskini: "Named for Dr Conrad Hoskin (b. 1976) whose work on rainforest frogs and reptiles played an important role in recognizing the significance of rock landscapes (lithorefugia) in preserving ancient rainforest lineages (see Couper & Hoskin 2008); a concept that is well illustrated by the distribution of Australian Cyrtodactylus spp."1 |
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Description"Scales in posteriormost enlarged femoroprecloacal row < 50; Dark body bands with darker anterior and posterior margins; femoroprecloacal pores in males in a continuous series from knee to knee; Dark bars present ventrolaterally in the pale interspaces between the dark body bands, 38–44 ventral scale rows at midbody between ventrolateral skin folds."1 Similar species
Taxonomic notes
This species was described by Shea, Couper, Worthington Wilmer & Amey in 2011.1
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