Pachydactylus vansoni FITZSIMONS, 1933

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Van Son’s Gecko
Synonym	Pachydactylus capensis vansoni FITZSIMONS 1933 Pachydactylus capensis vansoni — LOVERIDGE 1947: 382 Pachydactylus capensis vansoni — WERMUTH 1965: 118 Pachydactylus capensis vansoni — KLUGE 1993 Pachydactylus vansoni — BAUER & GOOD 1996: 645 Pachydactylus capensis vansoni — BOCOTT 1992 Pachydactylus vansoni — BRANCH 1998: 262 Pachydactylus vansoni — RÖSLER 2000: 99 Pachydactylus vansoni — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013
Distribution	South Africa (Zoutpansberg Mountains) Type locality: Zoutpansberg Mountains, between Entabeni and Lake Fundusi, northern Transvaal.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 14179
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (32 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Dr. Georges Van Son (1898-1967), an entomologist and botanist. He was born in Russia to a Dutch diplomat father and a Russian countess.
References	Barts, M. & COLACICCO, F. 2015. Die Dickfingergeckos des südlichen Afrikas. Teil XVII: Pachydactylus vansoni FITZSIMONS, 1933. Sauria 37 (1): 41 - 48 - get paper here Barts, M.; Hulbert, F. & Haacke, W.D. 2005. Beobachtungen zur Eignung abgestorbener Aloe marlothii als Unterschlupf für Echsen im nordöstlichen Südafrika. Sauria 27 (1): 15-17 - get paper here 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. Bauer A M. Good D A. 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of the day geckos, genus Rhoptropus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), of south-western Africa. Journal of Zoology 238 (4): 635- 663 - get paper here Bauer, Aaron M., Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Matthew P. Heinicke and David C. Blackburn. 2015. Geographic Distribution. Pachydactylus barnardi FitzSimons, 1941, Barnard's Rough Gecko. African Herp News (62): 35-37 - 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 Boycott, R.C. 1992. An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Swaziland. The Conservation Trust of Swaziland - get paper here Branch, W. R. 1998. Field Guide to the Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. 3rd ed. Fully Revised and Updated to Include 83 New Species. Ralph Curtis Books (Sanibel Island, Florida), 399 pp. Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S. FitzSimons, VIVIAN 1933. Description of five new lizards from the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesia. Annals Transvaal Mus. 15 (2): 273-280. - get paper here Girard, Francis. 2013. Pachydactylus vansoni FitzSimons, 1933 Van Son's Thick-toed Gecko. Captive breeding. African Herp News (60): 19-20 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here Mashinini, P. L. and Mahlangu, L. M. 2013. An annotated catalogue of the types of gekkonid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the Herpetology collection of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, South Africa. Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 3: 165-181 Rösler H 1993. Contributions to the knowledge of African geckos (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). 1. Records of a five year period of maintenance and reproduction of Pachydactylus vansoni Fitzsimons 1933. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 42: 13-19 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.sntc.org.sz/biodiversity/sdreptiles.asp http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/gekkonidae… Google images

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