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Species profile—Orraya occultus (McIlwraith leaf-tailed gecko)

Classification

Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Carphodactylidae (carphodactylid geckos) → Orraya occultus (McIlwraith leaf-tailed gecko)

Species details

Kingdom
Animalia (animals)
Class
Reptilia (reptiles)
Family
Carphodactylidae (carphodactylid geckos)
Scientific name
Orraya occultus (Couper, Covacevich & Moritz, 1993)
Common name
McIlwraith leaf-tailed gecko
Type reference
Couper, P.J.; Covacevich, J.A. and 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 34(1): 95-124.
WildNet taxon ID
389
Synonym(s)
Saltuarius occultus
Alternate name(s)
Mcllwraith leaf-tailed gecko
long-tailed northern leaf-tailed gecko
Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
CR
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC) status
Critically endangered
Conservation significant
Yes
Confidential
Yes
Endemicity
Native
Pest status
Nil
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Data source

This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=389.

This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.

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Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Last updated
8 March 2022