Oedura coggeri

Oedura coggeri, commonly known as the northern spotted velvet gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to Queensland, Australia.[1][2][3]

Oedura coggeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Diplodactylidae
Genus:	Oedura
Species:	O. coggeri
Binomial name
Oedura coggeri Bustard, 1966

Etymology

The specific name, coggeri, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Harold Cogger.[4]

References

1. "Oedura coggeri ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
2. "Oedura coggeri Bustard, 1966 - Northern Spotted Velvet Gecko". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
3. "Northern spotted velvet gecko – Oedura coggeri ". Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland). Government of Queensland. 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Oedura coggeri, p. 56).

Further reading

• Bustard, H. Robert (1966). "The Oedura tryoni complex: east Australian rock-dwelling geckos. (Reptilia : Gekkonidae)". Bull. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool. 14: 1-14. (Oedura coggeri, new species, pp. 9–12).