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A new species of gecko that “looks like a little dragon”, with a beaky face and spiny leaf-shaped tail, has been discovered on an uninhabited Scawfell Island.
Assoc. Prof. Conrad Hoskin, a terrestrial ecologist at James Cook University has named the animal Phyllurus fimbriatus, the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, with its scientific name referring to the fringe of spines around the lizard’s tail.
Hoskins suggests the new opened leaf-tailed gecko may be one of the last distinct new vertebrates to be found in Australia.
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