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Pachydactylus austeni HEWITT, 1923

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Austen Thick-toed Gecko, Austen’s Gecko 
SynonymPachydactylus austeni HEWITT 1923
Pachydactylus austeni — LOVERIDGE 1947: 349
Pachydactylus austeni — WERMUTH 1965: 115
Pachydactylus austeni — KLUGE 1993
Pachydactylus austeni — RÖSLER 2000: 98
Pachydactylus austeni — BATES et al. 2014: 127 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (W Cape Province)

Type locality: Porth Nolloth, Little Namaqualand.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntype: PEM R12387 (formerly AMG 4662) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (33 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentType not in South Africa fide SAMA catalog (Anonymous 1958). 
EtymologyNamed after Lieutenant Colonel Henry Homersham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923) English army topographer, geologist, surveyor, and ornithologist. He explored and surveyed the region ofthe Karakorum around K2 (formerly Mount Godwin-Austen) and wrote Birds ofA ssam (1870-1878). 
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.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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
  • Girard, F. 1997. Geographic distribution. Pachydactylus austeni. African Herp News (26):32. - get paper here
  • Girard, F. and T. Heer 2001. Pachydactylus austeni Austen's Gecko. Husbandry. African Herp News (33):12-14 - get paper here
  • Girard, Francis 2002. Notes on the Size of the Terrestrial South African Gecko, Pachydactylus austeni Hewitt, 1923. Gekko 2 (2): 29-33
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
 
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