Answers to Module 7 Questions
- This media is a photograph
- This is not my own work as I did not take the photograph.
- The file format is a jpeg image.
- The licence is a CC BY-SA 2.0 licence
- I will add this to the category Saltuarius
- I will describe this image as: a photo of blackdown tableland, a site where Rough-throated leaf-tailed geckos are commonly found
Practicing Citations
1. The Saltuarius salebrosus is the largest of the Australian geckos, with snout-vent lengths up to 145mm and a total length of 250mm. (1)
2. It may be distinguished by its extremely tubercular throat and is primarily located in sandstone cliffs and forests of scattered areas of mid-eastern Queensland. It is predominantly a rock-dwelling species found in a variety of habitats raining from gully rainforests to drier rocky scrublands. (2)
3. Saltuarius salebrosus is the most widespread of the leaf-tails, in addition to being primarily located in rainforests, it is also a rock dweller. (3)
4. Saltuarius' occultus represents a long, independent, evolutionary lineage within the leaf-tailed geckos and is recognised from both morphological and molecular data as distinct at the generic level. (4)
5. There are six Saltuarius species described, ranging from north-east Queensland to north-east New South Wales. (5)
Referneces: (1) Porter, R 2014, Keeping Australian geckos, Australian Reptile Keeper Publications, Burleigh, QLD. (2) Cogger, H 2014, Reptiles and amphibians of Australia, 7th edn, CSIRO publishing, Collingwood, VIC. (3) ‘About Our Cover: Saltuarius salebrosus’, 2004, Herpetological Review, vol 35, no. 2, pp. 97. (4) Couper, P.J, Covacevich, J.A. & 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, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 95-124. (5) Hoskin, C & Couper, P 2013, ‘A spectacular new leaf-tailed gecko (Carphodactylidae: Saltuarius) from the Melville Range, north-east Australia’, Zootaxa, vol. 3717, no. 2, pp. 543-558.
Practicing Infobox
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| Rough Throated leaf-tailed gecko | |
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| X-ray scan of Saltuarius salebrosus (1971) | |
LC (NCA (1992))[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Carphodactylidae |
| Genus: | Saltuarius |
| Species: | S. salebrosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Saltuarius salebrosus Covacevich, 1975
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- ^ Communications, c=AU; o=The State of Queensland; ou=Department of Environment and Science; ou=Corporate (2014-10-20). "Species profile | Environment, land and water". apps.des.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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