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The Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko (Oedura tryoni), also commonly known as Tryon’s Gecko or Tryon’s Velvet Gecko. Endemic to Australia, whose current known distribution is along south-eastern Queensland down through north-eastern New South Wales.
The Tryon’s Gecko pictured was seen around the bee hotel in the photographer’s garden in Ballandean, a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region of Queensland.


Photographs © Marc Newman
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Informal: Gnathostomata
- Class: Reptilia
- Subclass: Lepidosauria
- Order: Squamata
- Suborder: Gekkota
- Family: Diplodactylidae
- Genus: Oedura
- Species: Oedura tryoni
Footnote & References
- Photographs Tryon’s Gecko, Ballandean, QLD © Marc Newman, Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/koolbee/
- Oedura tryoni De Vis 1884, Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Oedura tryoni
- Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko (Oedura tryoni), iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/34183-Oedura-tryoni
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