Pachydactylus namaquensis (SCLATER, 1898)

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Namaqua Thick-toed Gecko
Synonym	Elasmodactylus namaquensis SCLATER 1898 Pachydactylus namaquensis — METHUEN & HEWITT 1914: 128 Pachydactylus namaquensis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 347 Pachydactylus namaquensis — WERMUTH 1965: 396 Pachydactylus namaquensis — KLUGE 1993 Pachydactylus namaquensis — RÖSLER 2000: 98 Pachydactylus namaquensis — BATES et al. 2014: 137 Pachydactylus namaquensis — SCHLEICHER 2020
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (Namaqualand, Cape Province), Namibia Type locality: Namaqualand.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SAM
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Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
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 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., and Branch, W.R. 2003. The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8: 111-160 [2001] Boycott, R. 1990. Geographical Distribution - Pachydactylus namaquensis. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (37): 57-57 - get paper here Branch W R. Bauer A M. Good D A. 1996. A review of the Namaqua gecko, Pachydactylus namaquensis (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from southern Africa, with the description of two new species. South African J Zoology 31 (2): 53-69. - get paper here Branch, William R. 1994. Herpetofauna of the Sperrgebeit [sic] Region of Southern Namibia. Herpetological Natural History 2 (1): 1-11. HEINICKE, M. P. & A. M. BAUER. 2018. A NEW PROVINCIAL RECORD AND OTHER NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF REPTILES IN THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA. African Herp News (67): 37 - 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 Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here Methuen, P.A. & Hewitt,J. 1914. [The Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to Great Namaqualand 1912-1913.] Records and descriptions of the reptiles and batrachians of the collection. Annals Transvaal Mus. 4 (3): 117-145 - get paper here 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. Sclater, W. L. 1898. List of the reptiles and batrachians of South Africa, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the South African Museum 1: 95-111. - get paper here 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/gekkonidae… http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0607/0418.jpeg Google images

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