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Pachydactylus barnardi FITZSIMONS, 1941

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Barnard's Rough Gecko, Barnard’s Thick-toed gecko 
SynonymPachydactylus capensis barnardi FITZSIMONS 1941: 273
Pachydactylus capensis barnardi — LOVERIDGE 1947: 372
Pachydactylus capensis barnardi — WERMUTH 1965: 117
Pachydactylus barnardi — LAMB & BAUER 2000
Pachydactylus rugosus barnardi — RÖSLER 2000: 99
Pachydactylus barnardi — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013
Pachydactylus barnardi — BATES et al. 2014: 127
Pachydactylus barnardi — SCHLEICHER 2020 
DistributionW Republic of South Africa (S Little Namaqualand, Cape Province), Namibia

Type locality: Garies, Little Namaqualand, Cape Province.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SAM 18055, paratypes: DNMNH (= TM) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3190 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution not yet corrected for elevation of P. rugosus barnardi to species status. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887-1964), a UK-born South African invertebrate zoologist particularly interested in marine crustaceans.  
References
  • Barts, M. & T. PING 2013. Die Dickfingergeckos des südlichen Afrikas – Teil XV: Pachydactylus barnardi FITZSIMONS, 1941. Sauria 35 (2): 51-58 - 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., and Branch, W.R. 2003. The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8: 111-160 [2001]
  • 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
  • Fitzsimons, V.F.M.; Brain, C.K. 1958. A Short account of the Reptiles of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Koedoe, 1(1): 99-104 - get paper here
  • Fitzsimons,V.F.M. 1941. Descriptions of some new lizards from South Africa and a frog from southern Rhodesia. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (3): 273-281 - get paper here
  • HEINICKE, M. P. & A. M. BAUER. 2018. A NEW PROVINCIAL RECORD AND OTHER NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF REPTILES IN THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA. African Herp News (67): 37 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Lamb, T. & A. M. BAUER 2000. Relationships of the Pachydactylus rugosus group of geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae). African Zoology 35 (1): 55-67 - 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. 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.
  • Schönecker, P. 2014. Südafrika. Auf Reptiliensuche entlang der Garden Route. Reptilia (Münster) 19 (105): 80-93
 
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