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Goggia hewitti (BRANCH, BAUER & GOOD, 1995)

IUCN Red List - Goggia hewitti - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hewitt’s Dwarf Leaf-toed Gecko, Hewitt’s Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymPhyllodactylus hewitti BRANCH, BAUER & GOOD 1995
Phyllodactylus lineatus rupicolus — FITZSIMONS 1943: 29 (part.)
Goggia hewitti — BAUER et al. 1997
Goggia hewitti — RÖSLER 2000: 83
Goggia hewitti — BATES et al. 2014: 110 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (S Cape Fold Mountains)

Type locality: 3 km east from Swartberg Pass along summit road on Groot Swartberg (33° 20’ 40’’ S, 22° 04’ 17’’ E), elevation 1403 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: PEM R7829 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from other members of the P. linealus complex by a combination of the following features: usually four preanal pores in males, a high number of midbody scale rows (77-91), 10-13 scales between the nostril and anterior margin of the orbit, usually only 1 (0-3) nasorostrals, and a dorso-ventrally flattened head and body. In addition, it differs by 4-7 fixed alleles from the other taxa examined electrophoretically (Branch et al. 1995: 42).


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CommentDistribution: see map in Conradie et al. 2025: 553 (Fig. 1) 
EtymologyNamed after John Hewitt (1880-1961), director of the Albany Museum from 1910 to 1958. 
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. Good D A. Branch W R. 1997. The taxonomy of the Southern African leaf-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with a review of Old World "Phyllodactylus" and the description of five new genera. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 49 (14): 447-497. - 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
  • Branch, W. R., A. M. BAUER & D. A. GOOD 1995. Species limits in the Phyllodactylus lineatus complex (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), with the elevation of two taxa to specific status and the description of two new species. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 44 (2): 33-54. - get paper here
  • CONRADIE, W., HUNDERMARK, C., KEMP, L., & KEATES, C. 2025. New Pygmy Gecko (Goggia: Gekkonidae) from the arid Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Zootaxa 5618(4): 552-570 - get paper here
  • CONRADIE, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045 - get paper here
  • FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp.
  • 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
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • 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
 
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