A new velvet Gecko (Gekkonidae: Oedura) from south-east Queensland, Australia

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1587, 2007, Pages 27-41

  Couper, Patrick J ^a   Keim, Lauren D ^b   Hoskin, Conrad J ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Genetic divergence; Hemidactylus frenatus; Morphology; ND4; O. lesueurii; O. rhombifer; Oedura jacovae sp. nov.

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; GEKKONIDAE; HEMIDACTYLUS; HEMIDACTYLUS FRENATUS; OEDURA; OEDURA LESUEURII; OEDURA RHOMBIFER;

EID: 34748846429     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1587.1.2     Document Type: Article

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