User:Playground123/sandbox

Answers to Module 7 Questions


 * 1) This media is a photograph
 * 2) This is not my own work as I did not take the photograph.
 * 3) The file format is a jpeg image.
 * 4) The licence is a CC BY-SA 2.0 licence
 * 5) I will add this to the category Saltuarius
 * 6) 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.