Pachydactylus tigrinus VAN DAM, 1921

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Tiger (Thick-toed) Gecko
Synonym	Pachydactylus capensis var. tigrinus VAN DAM 1921 Pachydactylus capensis tigrinus — HEWITT 1927: 400 Pachydactylus capensis tigrinus — LOVERIDGE 1947 Pachydactylus capensis rhodesianus LOVERIDGE 1947: 384 Pachydactylus capensis rhodesianus — WERMUTH 1965: 118 Pachydactylus capensis tigrinus — WERMUTH 1965: 118 Pachydactylus tigrinus — AUERBACH 1987: 84 Pachydactylus tigrinus — KLUGE 1993 Pachydactylus tigrinus — RÖSLER 2000: 99 Pachydactylus tigrinus — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013
Distribution	Zimbabwe, Republic of South Africa (N Transvaal), E Botswana, W Mozambique (S Blinkwater/Brak River) Type locality: Blinkwater, Brak River, Zoutpansberg District, Northern Transvaal.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM), Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria. Holotype: MCZ 31575 [rhodesianus]
Diagnosis
Comment	Illustration in Gruschwitz & Schmidt 2001.
References	Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp. Barts, M. 2005. Die Dickfingergeckos des südlichen Afrikas Teil IV: Der Tigergecko Pachydactylus tigrinus VAN DAM, 1921. Sauria 27 (2): 3-12 - get paper here Barts, M. 2006. Der Tigergecko, Pachydactylus tigrinus. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. - 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. Dam, G. P. F. van 1921. Description of a new variety of a South African lizard of the family Geckonidae. Annals Transvaal Mus. 7: 244. - get paper here Girard, Francis 2004. Captive Maintenance and Reproduction of Pachydactylus tigrinus Van Dam, 1921 and Pachydactylus bicolor Hewitt, 1926. Gekko 4 (1): 26-38 Gruschwitz M. & Schmidt A. 2001. Das Blouberg Conservation Project - eine einzigartige Schutzinitiative für südafrikanische Reptilien braucht Unterstützung. Elaphe 9 (2): 65-69 Hewitt, J. 1927. Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3 (5): 371-415 Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - 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 Perry, Gad 2022. The Black Mambas of the Balule Nature Reserve and Other Notes on the Limpopo Region of Southern Africa. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS 29: 17–24 Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.gekkota.com/Photos/photos.html http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/agamidae/Agama_atra… http://www.pachydactylus.com/ http://www.dght.de/naturschutz/blouberg.htm http://www.reptarium.cz/foto.php?cid=9&page=280&id=1878 http://www.reptarium.cz/foto.php?cid=9&page=280&id=1879 https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/411602061064398 http://www.anoleannals.org/2013/12/10/tail-loss-and-locomotor-performance/ http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=3&Species=23 http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=3&Species=39 Google images

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