Eastern Spiny-tailed Gecko: Eye

Eastern Spiny-tailed Gecko (Strophurus williamsi)

Class:

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

Order:

Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)

Family:

Gecko (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Eastern Spiny-tailed Gecko (Strophurus williamsi)

This Photo:

🔍Eye🔎

Thank you Antoni Camozzato & Bruce Edley for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Riverland and possibly elsewhere
We found one of these on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's.
An amazing eye pattern with knobs on it's tail; not really spines. The spines are in 2 rows of two that extend up to the front legs, becoming irregularly spaced. Overall a dusty grey colour.
~55mm SVL.

This species is classed as

NT (Near Threatened)

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

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