Saltuarius salebrosus, also known as the rough-throated leaf-tailed gecko or Central Queensland leaf-tailed gecko, is a gecko found in Australia. It is endemic to dry areas in mid-eastern and south-central Queensland.
Saltuarius salebrosus, commonly called the rough-throated leaf-tailed gecko, is a species of gecko belonging to the genus Saltuarius which translates to the "keeper of the forest". The genus Saltuarius was established in 1993 to accommodate a monophyletic group of larger species of geckos with unique interior and exterior morphological characteristics and a distinctly different chromosome number to Phyllurus. The genus Saltuarius is a long, self-sufficient, evolutionary lineage of leaf-tailed geckos, described as an innocuous, moderately sized species. Geckos are an ancient taxon of primarily nocturnal lizards, exhibiting great diversity and a worldwide distribution, occupying a wide variety of habitats and external conditions. Rough-throated leaf-tailed geckos are a group of the Carphodactylidae geckos of rainforests and rocky habitats of eastern Australia.
The species was first described by herpetologist Jeanette Covacevich in 1975. The rough-throated leaf-tailed gecko is the largest of the Australian geckos, with a snout-length up to 145 mm and a total length of 250 mm. It may be distinguished by its exceedingly tubercular throat and is primarily a cavernicolous or rock-dwelling species, found in a variety of habitats ranging from gully rainforest to drier rocky scrublands. It is native to Australia and is found mostly in ranges west and south-west of Rockhampton, Queensland. The rough-throated leaf-tailed gecko average life span of seven to nine years in the wild, with a captivity life span that ranges from ten to twenty years.
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