| Lucasium | |
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| Lucasium stenodactylum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Diplodactylidae |
| Genus: | Lucasium Wermuth, 1965 |
| Species | |
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14, see text. | |
Lucasium is a genus of lizards, sometimes called ground geckos, in the family Diplodactylidae. The genus is endemic to Australia, and it includes 14 species.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid:[1][2]
- Lucasium alboguttatum (F. Werner, 1910) – white-spotted ground gecko
- Lucasium bungabinna Doughty & Hutchinson, 2008
- Lucasium byrnei (Lucas & C. Frost, 1896) – Byrne's gecko, gibber gecko
- Lucasium damaeum (Lucas & Frost, 1896) – beaded gecko
- Lucasium immaculatum (Storr, 1988) – pale-striped ground gecko
- Lucasium iris Vanderduys, Hoskin, Kutt, J.M. Wright & Zozaya, 2020 – Gilbert ground gecko
- Lucasium maini (Kluge, 1962) – Main's ground gecko
- Lucasium microplax Eastwood, Doughty, Hutchinson & Pepper, 2020
- Lucasium occultum (King, 1982) – Alligator Rivers gecko
- Lucasium squarrosum (Kluge, 1962) – mottled ground gecko
- Lucasium steindachneri (Boulenger, 1885) – box-patterned gecko, Steindachner's gecko
- Lucasium stenodactylum (Boulenger, 1896) – crowned gecko, pale-snouted ground gecko,
- Lucasium wombeyi (Storr, 1978) – Pilbara ground gecko
- Lucasium woodwardi (Fry, 1914) - Pilbara ground gecko
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lucasium.
Captivity
Both the beaded gecko and the box-patterned gecko can be kept as pets although a permit is required to keep them.
References
- ↑ Lucasium at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 October 2013.
- ↑ Vanderduys, Eric; Hoskin, Conrad J.; Kutt, Alex S.; Wright, Justin M.; Zozaya, Stephen M. (2020). "Beauty in the eye of the beholder: a new species of gecko (Diplodactylidae: Lucasium) from inland north Queensland, Australia". Zootaxa. 4877 (2): 291–310. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4877.2.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311190. S2CID 228867699.
Further reading
- Wermuth, Heinz (1965). "Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae ". Das Tierreich 80: 1–246. (Lucasium, new genus). (in German).
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