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Goggia microlepidota (FITZSIMONS, 1939)

IUCN Red List - Goggia microlepidota - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Small-scaled leaf-toed Lecko 
SynonymPhyllodactylus microlepidotus FITZSIMONS 1939: 5
Phyllodactylus microlepidotus — LOVERIDGE 1947: 247
Phyllodactylus microlepidotus — WERMUTH 1965: 140
Phyllodactylus microlepidotus — KLUGE 1993
Goggia microlepidota — BAUER et al. 1997
Goggia microlepidota — RÖSLER 2000: 83
Goggia microlepidota — BATES et al. 2014: 112 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (W Cape Province, Cedarberg, from Pakhuis Pass south to Ceres)

Type locality: Pakhuis Pass, Clanwilliam District, Cape Province  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SAM 
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CommentSympatry: Sympatric with G. hexapora.

Distribution: see map in Conradie et al. 2025: 553 (Fig. 1) 
EtymologyNamed after Greek mikros (= small) + lepidotos (= scaled), referring to the relatively small scales. 
References
  • Anonymous 1958. A List of Zoological and Botanical Types preserved in collections in Southern and East Africa. Volume I - Zoology, Part 1. South African Museums' Association, Pretoria, i-vi, 1-147. - get paper here
  • Barts, M. 2021. Geckos aus dem südlichen Afrika. DATZ 2021 (5): 24-34
  • Bauer A M. Good D A. Branch W R. 1997. The taxonomy of the Southern African leaf-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with a review of Old World "Phyllodactylus" and the description of five new genera. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 49 (14): 447-497. - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M. 1997. Family Gekkonidae. Genus Phyllodactylus. In: J. H. van Wyk (ed.): Proceedings of the Fitzsimons Commemorative Symposium, South African Lizards: 50 years of Progress. - Herp. Assoc. Africa (Matieland, South Afr.), pp. 24-28
  • Branch, William R.;Bauer, Aaron 1996. Notes on two poorly-known Phyllodactylus (Squamata: gekkonidae) from South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 4 (2): 127-134 [1997]
  • CONRADIE, W., HUNDERMARK, C., KEMP, L., & KEATES, C. 2025. New Pygmy Gecko (Goggia: Gekkonidae) from the arid Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Zootaxa 5618(4): 552-570 - 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 - 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
  • 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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