Ranges Stone Gecko: Dorsal

Ranges Stone Gecko (Diplodactylus furcosus)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)

Order:

Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)

Family:

Gecko (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Ranges Stone Gecko (Diplodactylus furcosus)

This Photo:

🔍Dorsal🔎

Thank you David Muirhead (DaveMMDave) & Bruce Edley for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere
A couple of these were found on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's.
Easily confused with other Diplodactylus gecko's, having a variable wavy stripe on it's back, breaking up on the tail.
The two we found ranged between ~50mm to ~60mm SVL.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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