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Pachydactylus oculatus HEWITT, 1927

IUCN Red List - Pachydactylus oculatus - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Golden Spotted Gecko, Inland Thick-toed Gecko 
SynonymPachydactylus capensis oculatus HEWITT 1927: 394
Pachydactylus oculatus — KLUGE 1993
Pachydactylus oculatus — RÖSLER 2000: 99
Pachydactylus oculatus — BATES et al. 2014: 138 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (S Orange Free State, Cape Province)

Type locality: Cyrilhurst Farm, 6 miles off Tarkastad, Cape Province.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: PEM 5304 
Diagnosis 
CommentLOVERIDGE 1947 (and WERMUTH 1965) synonymized P. capensis oculatus with P. maculatus.

Type not in South Africa fide SAMA catalog (Anonymous 1958). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin oculatus, having eyes. ["...Above light brown with four series of elongate oval blotches along the back and neck…"]. 
References
  • Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp.
  • Conradie, Werner; Brian Reeves , Neil Brown, & Jan A. Venter 2016. Herpetofauna of the Oviston, Commando Drift and Tsolwana nature reserves in the arid interior of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Indago 32: 81-98 - get paper here
  • CONRADIE, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045 - get paper here
  • Hewitt, J. 1927. Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3 (5): 371-415
  • Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
 
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