TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE GECKO PSEUDOTHECADACTYLUS LINDNERI CAVATICUS COGGER

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Abtract: Pseudothecadactylus lindneri cavaticus is partly redescribed and elevatedlto a full species on the basis of examination of additional material.

The description of Pseudothecadactylus lindneri cavaticus Cogger 1975 was based on three specimens from the Mitchell Plateau area of Western Australia. It was distinguished from P. Iindneri Iindneri Cogger 1975 of the Arnhem Land Escarpment in the Northern Territory by its apparent lack of preanal pores (preanal pores present in nominate P. Iindneri), its moderately heterogeneous dorsal and lateral scales (scales homogenous in nominate P. lindneri) its dorsal pattern (dorsal bands less prominent in nominate P. Iindneri) and by having the rostral usually contacting the nostril (rostral excluded from nostril in nominate P. Iindneri). Subsequent material confirms the absence ofpreanal pores in P. lindneri cavaticus and other differences between it and nominate P. Iindneri. On the basis of these data P. lindneri cavaticus is partly redescribed and elevated to a full species.