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Pachydactylus atorquatus BAUER & BARTS & HULBERT, 2006

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Augrabies Gecko, Good’s Gecko (P. goodi) 
SynonymPachydactylus atorquatus BAUER & BARTS & HULBERT 2006
Pachydactylus goodi BAUER, LAMB & BRANCH 2006: 679
Pachydactylus weberi — BAUER & LAMB 2005 (part.)
Pachydactylus goodi — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013
Pachydactylus goodi — BATES et al. 2014: 131
Pachydactylus atorquatus — BATES et al. 2014: 126 
DistributionSouth Africa (Northern Cape Province, Augrabies National Park)

Type locality: South Africa, Northern Cape Province, Augrabies National Park, Dassie Trail, in a sheltered depression on the plateau (28°35’15.6” S, 20°20’03.0” E), 619 m elevation

goodi: Republic of South Africa (Northern Cape Province); Type locality: South Africa, Northern Cape Province, 10 km S Vioolsdrif.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: DNMNH (= TM) 84939, adult male; Paratypes: ZFMK, TM, NMNW
Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 27962 (Fig. 113): Adult male; coll. W.D.Haacke, December 1962. PARATYPES: TM, CAS [goodi] 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS (goodi): Alarge species, to 50.0 mm SVL. Pachydactylus goodi may be distinguished from all other members of the P. serval/weberi group by the combination of the following characters: nasal region not strongly inflated laterally; rostral excluded from nostril; supranasals in contact anteriorly; scales on snout and canthus flattened to weakly domed, those of interorbital and parietal regions tiny, granular, with larger, rounded, conical tubercles interspersed; scales on snout equal to or greater than size to interorbital tubercles; dorsal scalation heterogeneous, with relatively large, oval, strongly keeled tubercles arranged in approximately 16–18 regular rows; large keeled to mucronate tubercles on thighs; toes relatively short, toe pads relatively narrow; five undivided lamellae beneath digit IV of pes; tail to at least 113% of SVL, annulate, bearing whorls of large, pointed, strongly keeled tubercles, separated from each other by a single, narrow scale row; adult pattern chocolate to purplish-brown with a series of three very bold, white, complete transverse bands with well-defined, thick, dark brown margins: one from posteroventral margin of orbits across nape, one at mid-body and one presacral; white markings also present on the dorsum of thighs and on proximal forelimbs and forelimb insertions;tail with alternating mid-brown and white to cream, dark edged bands (Figs 113–115 in Bauer et al. 2006); juvenile pattern as adult (Fig. 116 in Bauer et al. 2006). 
CommentDistribution: see map in BRANCH et al. 2011.

Synonymy: Šmíd et al. 2018 synonymized P. goodi with P. atorquatus. 
EtymologyNamed after the fact that it is the only member of the Pachydactylus weberi group that never possesses a pale nape band or collar: atorquatus, Latin for “without a collar or necklace”. Although absent or faded in the adults of some other members of the group, a collar is present in hatchlings and juveniles of all other species in the group.

P. goodi was named after David A. Good who, with the first and third authors, performed a herpetofaunal survey of the Richtersveld and collected much of the material of the P. weberi group from along the lower Orange Valley during the mid-1990s. 
References
  • Barts, M., BOONE, J. & COLACCICO, F. 2015. Die Dickfingergeckos des südlichen Afrikas. Teil XIX: Pachydactylus atorquatus BAUER, BARTS & HULBERT, 2006, der Augrabies-Gecko. Sauria 37 (4): 3-9 - 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. & Lamb, T. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of southern African geckos in the Pachydactylus group (Squamata: Gekkonidae). African Journal of Herpetology 54 (2): 105-129 - get paper here
  • Bauer, A.M.; Barts, M. & Hulbert, F. 2006. A new species of the Pachydactylus weberi group (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Orange River, with comments on its natural history. Salamandra 42 (2-3): 83-92 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M. Lamb, Trip. Branch, William R. 2006. A revision of the Pachydactylus serval and P. weberi groups (Reptilia: Gekkota: Gekkonidae) of Southern Africa, with the description of eight new species. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 57 (12-24):595-709. - 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
  • Böhme, Wolfgang 2014. Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. vi + 256 pp. - get paper here
  • Branch, William R.; Aaron M. Bauer, Todd R. Jackman, and Matthew Heinicke 2011. A New Species of the Pachydactylus weberi Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Namibrand Reserve, Southern Namibia. Breviora (524): 1-15. - 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
  • Šmíd, Jiří; Hanlie Engelbrecht, Jody M. Taft, Nicolas S. Telford, Buyisile G. Makhubo, Aaron M. Bauer & Krystal A. Tolley 2018. A contribution to the phylogeny and taxonomy of the Pachydactylus weberi group (Squamata: Gekkonidae): a case of intraspecific colour polymorphism confounding taxonomy. African Journal of Herpetology 67 (2): 113-126, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2017.1398186 - get paper here
 
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