#hoserae

Habitat of the newly described species of lizard known as Rankinia hoserae from near Gisborne in Victoria. This is a kind of so-called Mountain Dragon. In fact they like this sandy soil underlain with so-called buckshot in the form of sandy rubble rocks. Included are specific kinds of arid zone vegetation. Populations can expand across burnt habitat that affords similar conditions. Near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the species occurs near Anglesea beach, Wombat State Forest and Kinglake National Park, where they are probably the most common. Learn more at: https://www.smuggled.com/issue-30-pages-37-64.pdf

Rankinia hoserae Hoser, 2015 is a spectacular small species of dragon lizard from central Victoria. it effectively escaped scientific attention till 2015, when the Snakeman Raymond Hoser identified it as a previously unknown and unnamed species. Learn more at http://www.herp.net

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Hoser, R. T. 2022. Eleven new species of Australian gecko within the genus Heteronotia Wermuth, 1965. LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:1C7EAA91-A50D-4AEE-B6BE-3E6D17E9F9E7 Australasian Journal of Herpetology 55:3-48. Published 15 May 2022. ABSTRACT The Australian gecko genus Heteronotia Wermuth, 1965 has been subject of recent taxonomic studies including Wells and Wellington (1985), Fujita et al (2010) and Pepper et al. (2013), two of which resulted in the formal naming of taxa. The most commonly accepted taxonomy of just five recognized species is seen in Cogger (2014), including two forms named by Pepper et al. (2013). Notwithstanding the identification of further self-evidently unnamed forms by Pepper et al. (2013), all of which were common knowledge among herpetologists in Australia prior, it is significant that no one has sought to assign names to other sometimes common and widespread species in the genus. To rectify this error, obviously unnamed species and subspecies within the genus are formally named according to the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999 as amended online since) for the first time. These new taxa are identified on the basis of morphological divergence, known biogeographical barriers affecting similarly constrained reptiles and the genetic evidence previously published. These include one species and a subspecies in the H. spelea (Kluge, 1963) complex (currently with three recognized species), Heteronotia planiceps Storr, 1989 is split five ways, with four new species named, as well as a new subspecies and the Bynoe’s Gecko H. binoei (Gray, 1845) is split into nine species, with two available subjective synonyms resurrected and six new species formally named for the first time. A further two morphologically divergent insular subspecies in that complex are also formally named. In summary the genus is expanded from 5 widely recognized species to include 2 resurrected forms and 11 newly named species, to make it have a total of 18 species, with four recognized subspecies. There may yet be other species or subspecies in the genus awaiting formal description. Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature, Australia, geckos; Heteronotia; binoei; planiceps; spelea; atra; fasciolata; derbianus; anomalus; australis, annulatus; horneri; wadei; new species; whybrowi; binghami; ruffellae; arcerii; hoserae; oxyi; maxinehoserae; nonidem; keilleri; pailsi; crottyi; new subspecies; jameswhybrowi; insularis; grooteensis; sundayensis.

Hoser, R. T. 2019. A new species of Tree Kangaroo, Genus Dendrolagus Müller, 1840 from Tembagapura, Mimika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 40:50-55. Published 10 July 2019. LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:80A052AC-4B41-455D-93BF-40C5C0BD6F35 ABSTRACT An ongoing audit of vertebrate fauna in Australasia has revealed an unnamed species of Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus Müller, 1840 from Tembagapura, Mimika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to formally name the taxon. D. hoserae sp. nov. is not common and due to its specialized habitat requirements including relatively cold, high altitude habitat of limited land area, it is particularly vulnerable to extinction due to an ongoing increase in human population and activity in the area. Less immediate threats such as global warming, introduced competing species and pathogens may also cause the ultimate extinction of this little-known taxon. A subspecies of D. ursinus (Temminck, 1836) is also formally named for the first time. Keywords: taxonomy; nomenclature; tree kangaroo; Irian Jaya; New Guinea; Indonesia; Dendrolagus; dorianus; stellarum; mayri; ursinus; new species; hoserae; new subspecies; arfakensis. Full text available as open access at: http://www.smuggled.com/issue-40-pages-50-55.pdf