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Pachydactylus mariquensis SMITH, 1849

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Common Banded Gecko, Ceres Thick-toed Gecko, Marico Thick-toed Gecko 
SynonymPachydactylus mariquensis SMITH 1849: 3
Pachydactylus mariquensis — BOULENGER 1885: 207
Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 346
Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis — WERMUTH 1965: 120
Pachydactylus mariquensis — KLUGE 1993
Pachydactylus mariquensis — RÖSLER 2000: 98
Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis — GIRARD 2001
Pachydactylus mariquensis — BAUER et al. 2011
Pachydactylus mariquensis — BATES et al. 2014: 135
Pachydactylus mariquensis — SCHLEICHER 2020 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (S Victoria, E Cape Province, S Orange Free State, Little Namaqualand),
Namibia (Hardap)

Type locality: Interior of Southern Africa, towards the Tropic of Capricorn.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.26.16–9 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy partly after WERMUTH 1965. Some authors synonymized and do not recognize macrolepis as a valid subspecies. 
EtymologyNamed after the Marico district where it actually does not occur (Bauer et al. 2011). 
References
  • Barts, M. & F. MÜLLER 2009. On a Case of Double - headedness (Bicephalism) in Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris Hewitt, 1923. Sauria 31 (1): 53-54 - get paper here
  • Bates M F 1993. Geographical Distribution: Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 42: 41. - get paper here
  • Bates, M. F. 1988. Life History Note: Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis: Avian predation. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (34): 49-49 - 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 1990. Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 37: 57. - get paper here
  • Bauer A M 1991. Pachydactylus mariquensis mariquensis. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 39: 19-20. - get paper here
  • 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]
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Matthew P. Heinicke, Todd R. Jackman & William R. Branch 2011. Systematics of the Pachydactylus mariquensis group of geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae): Status of P. mariquensis latirostris, P. m. macrolepis and P. amoenus. Navorsinge nas. Mus., Bloemfontein 27 (4): 85-107
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
  • Conradie, Werner; Brian Reeves , Neil Brown, & Jan A. Venter 2016. Herpetofauna of the Oviston, Commando Drift and Tsolwana nature reserves in the arid interior of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Indago 32: 81-98 - get paper here
  • Fitzsimons,V.F.M. 1939. Descriptions of some new species and subspecies of lizards from South Africa. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (1): 5-16
  • Girard, Francis 2001. Maintenance and Captive Reproduction of the South African Terrestrial Gecko, Pachydactylus mariquensis. Gekko 2 (1): 7-11
  • 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
  • Hewitt, J. 1923. Descriptions of two new S. African geckos of the genus Pachydactylus. Annals of the Natal Museum 5:67-71
  • Hewitt, J. 1927. Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3 (5): 371-415
  • Hewitt, John 1911. Records of South African Lacertilia and Amphibia, Addenda and Corrigenda. Annals Transvaal Museum 3 (1): 42-55. - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - 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
  • Mclachlan, G.R. 1979. Vocalization in Pachydactylus mariquensis. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (21): 20-20 - 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.
  • Smith, A. 1849. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. 3 (Reptiles). Smith, Elder, and Co., London [facsimile published by Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1977] - get paper here
  • WITBERG, M. 2011. Pachydactylus mariquensis (Wermuth, 1965). African Herp News (53): 53-54 - get paper here
 
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