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Pachydactylus mariquensis SMITH, 1849

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Common Banded Gecko, Ceres Thick-toed Gecko, Marico Thick-toed Gecko 
SynonymPachydactylus mariquensis SMITH 1849: 3
Pachydactylus mariquensis — BOULENGER 1885: 207
Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 346
Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis — WERMUTH 1965: 120
Pachydactylus mariquensis — KLUGE 1993
Pachydactylus mariquensis — RÖSLER 2000: 98
Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis — GIRARD 2001
Pachydactylus mariquensis — BAUER et al. 2011
Pachydactylus mariquensis — BATES et al. 2014: 135
Pachydactylus mariquensis — SCHLEICHER 2020 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (S Victoria, E Cape Province, S Orange Free State, Little Namaqualand),
Namibia (Hardap)

Type locality: Interior of Southern Africa, towards the Tropic of Capricorn.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.26.16–9 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (32 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy partly after WERMUTH 1965. Some authors synonymized and do not recognize macrolepis as a valid subspecies. 
EtymologyNamed after the Marico district where it actually does not occur (Bauer et al. 2011). 
References
  • Barts, M. & F. MÜLLER 2009. On a Case of Double - headedness (Bicephalism) in Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris Hewitt, 1923. Sauria 31 (1): 53-54 - get paper here
  • Bates M F 1993. Geographical Distribution: Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 42: 41. - get paper here
  • Bates, M. F. 1988. Life History Note: Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis: Avian predation. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (34): 49-49 - 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 1990. Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 37: 57. - get paper here
  • Bauer A M 1991. Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 39: 19-20. - get paper here
  • 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.; Matthew P. Heinicke, Todd R. Jackman & William R. Branch 2011. Systematics of the Pachydactylus mariquensis group of geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae): Status of P. mariquensis latirostris, P. m. macrolepis and P. amoenus. Navorsinge nas. Mus., Bloemfontein 27 (4): 85-107
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
  • 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
  • Fitzsimons,V.F.M. 1939. Descriptions of some new species and subspecies of lizards from South Africa. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (1): 5-16
  • Girard, Francis 2001. Maintenance and Captive Reproduction of the South African Terrestrial Gecko, Pachydactylus mariquensis. Gekko 2 (1): 7-11
  • 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
  • Hewitt, J. 1923. Descriptions of two new S. African geckos of the genus Pachydactylus. Annals of the Natal Museum 5:67-71
  • Hewitt, J. 1927. Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3 (5): 371-415
  • Hewitt, John 1911. Records of South African Lacertilia and Amphibia, Addenda and Corrigenda. Annals Transvaal Museum 3 (1): 42-55. - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - 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
  • Mclachlan, G.R. 1979. Vocalization in Pachydactylus mariquensis. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (21): 20-20 - 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.
  • Smith, A. 1849. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. 3 (Reptiles). Smith, Elder, and Co., London [facsimile published by Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1977] - get paper here
  • WITBERG, M. 2011. Pachydactylus mariquensis (Wermuth, 1965). African Herp News (53): 53-54 - get paper here
 
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