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Pachydactylus scherzi MERTENS, 1954

IUCN Red List - Pachydactylus scherzi - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPachydactylus punctatus scherzi MERTENS 1954: 175
Pachydactylus punctatus scherzi — WERMUTH 1965: 121
Pachydactylus punctatus scherzi — KLUGE 1993
Pachydactylus scherzi — BAUER & BRANCH 1995
Pachydactylus scherzi — RÖSLER 2000: 99
Pachydactylus scherzi — MARQUES et al. 2018 
DistributionW Namibia (north of the Kuiseb River), Angola (Huíla)

Type locality: Welwitschia-Fläche am Südrand des Brandberges, Südwest-Afrika.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 45696, male 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Ernst Rudolph Scherz (1906-1981), a chemical engineer who was educated in Berlin. He hated Nazism and in 1933 emigrated to South-West Africa (Namibia) and was Managing Director of the Karakul Breeders Association (1946-1963), karakul being a breed of sheep. Scherz accompanied Mertens on an excursion over several days and helped him collecting specimens. 
References
  • Bauer A M. Branch W R. 1995. Geographic variation in western populations of the Pachydactylus punctatus complex (Reptilia Gekkonidae). Tropical Zoology 8 (1): 69-84 - 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
  • Gates, Bruce C. 2004. Field Observations of the Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus scherzi Mertens, 1954 Near Namibia's Skeleton Coast. Gekko 4 (1): 18-22
  • Gates, Bruce C. 2006. Observations of the Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus scherzi Mertens, 1954 Near the Brandberg, Namibia. Gekko 5 (1): 2-4
  • 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)
  • Mertens, R. 1954. Neue Eidechsen aus Südwest—Afrika. Senckenbergiana, 34:175—183
  • 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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