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Pachydactylus oreophilus MCLACHLAN & SPENCE, 1967

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kaokoland Rock Gecko, African Thick-toed Gecko 
SynonymPachydactylus oreophilus MCLACHLAN & SPENCE 1967: 4
Pachydactylus oreophilus — KLUGE 1993
Pachydactylus oreophilus — RÖSLER 2000: 99
Pachydactylus oreophilus complex — MARQUES et al. 2018 
DistributionNamibia (Brandberg Gaias, Sesfontain), Angola (Marques et al. 2018 as “Pachydactylus oreophilus complex”).

Type locality: 20 miles W of Sesfontein.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: PEM R1921, given as PEM 1503/67 in original description. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “This species does not appear to be closely related to any described species of Pachydactylus. It is exceeded in size only by P. namaquensis, bibronii and laevigatus. With its high labial and scansor counts it is also near these species but the character of the dorsal scaling is altogether different, consisting of small granules intermixed with larger elongated feebly keeled tubercles. The head is only feebly depressed and quite unlikely the heavy triangular head of the other large species. Numbers 1503/67 and 69 are considered to be adults and No. 1503/68 to be a subadult.” (MCLACHLAN & SPENCE 1967) 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Greek oreos (όρεος), mountain, hill + Greek phylos (φίλος), friend, lover of, for the preferred habitat of the species on steep cliffs on hillsides. 
References
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Branch, William R. & Haacke, Wulf D. 1993. The herpetofauna of the Kamanjab area and adjacent Damaraland, Namibia. Madoqua (Windhoek) 18 (2): 117-145. - 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
  • 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
  • Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
  • McLachlan, G. R., and J. M. Spence. 1967. A new species of Pachydactylus (Pachydactylus oreophilus sp. nov.) from Sesfontein, South West Africa. Cimbebasia (21): 3—8
  • 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.
 
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