Pachydactylus caraculicus FITZSIMONS, 1959

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Angola Banded Thick-toed Gecko
Synonym	Pachydactylus caraculicus FITZSIMONS 1959 Pachydactylus caraculicus — WERMUTH 1965: 118 Pachydactylus caraculicus — KLUGE 1993 Pachydactylus caraculicus — RÖSLER 2000: 98 Pachydactylus caraculicus — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013 Pachydactylus caraculicus — SCHLEICHER 2020
Distribution	SW Angola (Caracul), N Namibia (Kaokoveld) Type locality: near Caracul, South Angola.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 22880, male, allotype female (TM. 22884) and two paratypes, a male (TM. 22885) and a female (TM. 22883).
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	BARTS, M. 2019. Die Dickfingergeckos des südlichen Afrikas Teil XXII: Pachydactylus caraculicus FitzSimons, 1959. Sauria 41 (4): 52 - 56 - get paper here Barts, M. 2021. Geckos aus dem südlichen Afrika. DATZ 2021 (5): 24-34 Bauer, A.M., Lamb, A.C., and Branch, W.R. 2000. Additional records of uncommon Pachydactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from northern and central Namibia. African Herp News (30): 2-3 [1999] - get paper here FitzSimons, V. 1959. Some new reptiles from southern Africa and southern Angola. Annals Transvaal Mus. 23: 405-409 - 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 Lobón-Rovira J, Vaz Pinto P, S. Becker F, Tolley KA, Measey J, Bennet B, Boon B, de Sá S, Conradie W 2022. An updated herpetofaunal species inventory of Iona National Park in southwestern Angola. Check List 18(2): 289-321 - 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) 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 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. Ulber T. 1992. Das Portrait: der Kurzbericht zum Titelbild: Pachydactylus caraculicus Fitzsimons. Sauria 14 (3): 1-2 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/gekkonidae… https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Synophis%20zaheri Google images

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