Pachydactylus affinis BOULENGER, 1896

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Transvaal Gecko
Synonym	Pachydactylus affinis BOULENGER 1896: 21 Pachydactylus formosus — ROUX 1907: 410 (part.) Pachydactylus formosus var. affinis — HEWITT 1910: 84 Pachydactylus capensis affinis — HEWITT 1927: 400 Pachydactylus capensis affinis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 381 Pachydactylus capensis affinis — BROADLEY 1962: 796 Pachydactylus capensis affinis — PIENAAR 1978 Pachydactylus affinis — RÖSLER 2000: 97 Pachydactylus affinis — BAUER & LAMB 2005 Pachydactylus affinis — BATES et al. 2014: 125 Pachydactylus affinis — STANDER 2023: 163
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (Transvaal), Zimbabwe Type locality: Rustenburg District, Transvaal.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.26.3
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin affinis, related, akin, connected. ["...This species is nearly related to P. capensis. Smith, and P. formosus, Smith, but easily distinguished by the much smaller dorsal tubercles…"].
References	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 Boulenger, G. A. 1896. Descriptions of two new lizards from the Transvaal. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 17: 21—22 - get paper here Boulenger, George Albert 1902. A List of the Fishes, Batrachians, and Reptiles collected by Mr. J. ffolliott Darling in Mashonaland, with Descriptions of new Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (London), 1902: 13-18. - get paper here Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843 Hewitt, J. 1910. A Key to the South African Species of Geckonidae, Scincidae, Gerrhosauridae, and Lacertidae, together with some Notes on the Specific Characters and a Brief Summary of the Known Facts of their Distribution. Annals Transvaal Mus. 2 (3): 77-115. - get paper here 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 Pienaar, Uys de Villiers 1978. The Reptile Fauna of the Kruger National Park. Pretoria: National Parks Board of South Africa, i-vii, 222 S. Roux,J. 1907. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fauna von Süd-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. VII. Lacertilia (Eidechsen). Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., Geogr. Biol. Tiere (Jena), 25: 403-444 - get paper here Stander, R.I. 2023. The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 pp. - get paper here Tolley KA, Telford NS, Makhubo BG, Power RJ, Alexander GJ 2023. Filling the gap: Noteworthy herpetological discoveries in North West Province, South Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(1): 101-116 - 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.pachydactylus.com/ http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/gekkonidae… Google images

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