Aussie Finch Forum

After nearly three years of work we are finally published and I have named two lizard subspecies previously unrecognised/unknown to science http://www.geckodan.com/articles/A%20Re ... icauda.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

wow that looks complicated
well done

Congratulations!.
Beautiful markings on them

Great work Danny. Buy the look of all the research on scale shapes, sizes etc etc I reckon you must just about have eye problems or be permanently cross eyed from prolonged microscope use now

It's very interesting how many of our Australian lizards look very similar, but are in fact more unrelated than would appear. Good stuff that DNA is for finding it out!

Well done
Beautiful little lizards.

spanna wrote:Great work Danny. Buy the look of all the research on scale shapes, sizes etc etc I reckon you must just about have eye problems or be permanently cross eyed from prolonged microscope use now

It's very interesting how many of our Australian lizards look very similar, but are in fact more unrelated than would appear. Good stuff that DNA is for finding it out!

For most I photographed them so I could enlarge them on the screen but those little 0.5 mm toe tubercles had to be found and counted on crumpled 80 year old formalinised toes.

Nice work Danny, That’s very detailed any wonder it’s taken three years.

Very impressive indeed Danny.You can see many differences in them for sure.I would also imagine there would have been alot of field hours put in also going by the distribution map.

Congratulations!!!!!! Was not just a "labour of love," but a thankless job! Only thing I know about lizzards(?) is a friend used to let the gecko's run free in his pet store to eat mice. Pretty but scarey, to me. Your work demonstrates a standard of excellence, that represents a high degree of care and dedication!

Nice work Danny. The golden tailed gecko is a true national living treasure and talking of that, Clive Palmer might be interested in too as Strophurus species look to be a good indicator species for areas suitable for coal seam gas exploration!