Pachydactylus scherzi MERTENS, 1954

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Pachydactylus punctatus scherzi MERTENS 1954: 175 Pachydactylus punctatus scherzi — WERMUTH 1965: 121 Pachydactylus punctatus scherzi — KLUGE 1993 Pachydactylus scherzi — BAUER & BRANCH 1995 Pachydactylus scherzi — RÖSLER 2000: 99 Pachydactylus scherzi — MARQUES et al. 2018
Distribution	W Namibia (north of the Kuiseb River), Angola (Huíla) Type locality: Welwitschia-Fläche am Südrand des Brandberges, Südwest-Afrika.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SMF 45696, male
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Dr. Ernst Rudolph Scherz (1906-1981), a chemical engineer who was educated in Berlin. He hated Nazism and in 1933 emigrated to South-West Africa (Namibia) and was Managing Director of the Karakul Breeders Association (1946-1963), karakul being a breed of sheep. Scherz accompanied Mertens on an excursion over several days and helped him collecting specimens.
References	Bauer A M. Branch W R. 1995. Geographic variation in western populations of the Pachydactylus punctatus complex (Reptilia Gekkonidae). Tropical Zoology 8 (1): 69-84 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Gates, Bruce C. 2004. Field Observations of the Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus scherzi Mertens, 1954 Near Namibia's Skeleton Coast. Gekko 4 (1): 18-22 Gates, Bruce C. 2006. Observations of the Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus scherzi Mertens, 1954 Near the Brandberg, Namibia. Gekko 5 (1): 2-4 Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II) Mertens, R. 1954. Neue Eidechsen aus Südwest—Afrika. Senckenbergiana, 34:175—183 Parrinha, D., Marques, M. P., Bauer, A. M., & Ceríaco, L. M. 2026. An Updated Checklist and Atlas of the Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 91(4), 319-397 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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