Lucasium

Lucasium
Lucasium stenodactylum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Gekkota
Family:	Diplodactylidae
Genus:	Lucasium Wermuth, 1965
Species
14, see text.

Lucasium is a genus of lizards, sometimes called ground geckos, in the family Diplodactylidae. The genus is endemic to Australia, and it includes 14 species.

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid:

• Lucasium alboguttatum (F. Werner, 1910) – white-spotted ground gecko
• Lucasium bungabinna Doughty & Hutchinson, 2008
• Lucasium byrnei (Lucas & C. Frost, 1896) – Byrne's gecko, gibber gecko
• Lucasium damaeum (Lucas & Frost, 1896) – beaded gecko
• Lucasium immaculatum (Storr, 1988) – pale-striped ground gecko
• Lucasium iris Vanderduys, Hoskin, Kutt, J.M. Wright & Zozaya, 2020 – Gilbert ground gecko
• Lucasium maini (Kluge, 1962) – Main's ground gecko
• Lucasium microplax Eastwood, Doughty, Hutchinson & Pepper, 2020
• Lucasium occultum (King, 1982) – Alligator Rivers gecko
• Lucasium squarrosum (Kluge, 1962) – mottled ground gecko
• Lucasium steindachneri (Boulenger, 1885) – box-patterned gecko, Steindachner's gecko
• Lucasium stenodactylum (Boulenger, 1896) – crowned gecko, pale-snouted ground gecko,
• Lucasium wombeyi (Storr, 1978) – Pilbara ground gecko
• Lucasium woodwardi (Fry, 1914) - Pilbara ground gecko

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lucasium.

Captivity

Both the beaded gecko and the box-patterned gecko can be kept as pets although a permit is required to keep them.

References

Further reading

• Wermuth, Heinz (1965). "Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae ". Das Tierreich 80: 1–246. (Lucasium, new genus). (in German).