Champion's leaf-tailed gecko

Champion's leaf-tailed gecko or the Koumala leaf-tailed gecko (Phyllurus championae) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Carphodactylidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Champion's leaf-tailed gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Carphodactylidae
Genus: Phyllurus
Species:
P. championae
Binomial name
Phyllurus championae
Couper, Schneider, Hoskin & Covacevich, 2000

Geographic range

P. championae was first found in the Cameron Creek/Black Mountain area near Koumala, Queensland, Australia.[1][2][3]

References
  1. MacDonald, Stewart. "Champion's leaf-tailed gecko". Australian Reptile Online Database. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. Phyllurus championae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 October 2014.
  3. "Phyllurus championae". The Queensland Museum. Retrieved 2017-11-11.

Further reading
  • Couper PJ, Schneider CJ, Hoskin CJ, Covacevich JA (2002). "Australian leaf-tailed geckos: phylogeny, a new genus, two new species and other new data". Mem. Queensland Mus. 45 (2): 253–265. (Phyllurus championae, new species, pp. 258–262, Figures 6, 7A, 7B).
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