I came across several of these geckos on the paved roads at night. One of them hopped like a frog or grasshopper as I tried to shoo it off of the road. I caught this second one in the act of licking its own eye, a habit common to many geckos. Geckos in the family Gekkonidae have no eyelids, and they clean their eyes with their tongues.

Until recently, and in all the reference books I've got, this species was placed in the genus Diplodactylus. Australian ecologist Mark Sanders informed me that they had recently been split into the genus Strophurus.

Thanks also to Peter Jones for correcting my misidentification of the subspecies.

Here is a complete list of the reptiles and frogs I saw on this trip to Australia.