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Goggia hexapora (BRANCH, BAUER & GOOD, 1995)

IUCN Red List - Goggia hexapora - Least Concern, LC

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cedarberg Dwarf Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymPhyllodactylus hexaporus BRANCH, BAUER & GOOD 1995
Phyllodactylus lineatus — FITZSIMONS 1935: 527 (part.)
Phyllodactylus lineatus rupicolus — FITZSIMONS 1943: 29 (part.)
Goggia hexapora — BAUER et al. 1997
Goggia hexapora — BATES et al. 2014: 111 
DistributionSW South Africa

Type locality: Pakhuis Pass, Cedarberg, Clanwilliam District, Western Cape.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: PEM R10993 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from other members of the P. lineatus complex by a combination of the following features: usually six preanal pores in males, a high number of midbody scale rows (75-91), 8-13 scales between the nostril and anterior margin of the orbit, usually 1 (0-3) nasorostral granule, and a dorso-ventrally flattened head and body (Branch et al. 1995: 41).


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed for the presence of six preanal pores in males. 
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
  • 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, 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. 1935. Notes on a collection of reptiles and amphibians made in the Southern Kalahari, Bushmanland, and Great and Little Namaqualand. Annals Transvaal Mus., Pretoria 17: 519-550 - get paper here
  • FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp.
  • HEINICKE, MATTHEW P.; DILARA TURK, AARON M. BAUER 2017. Molecular phylogeny reveals strong biogeographic signal and two new species in a Cape Biodiversity Hotspot endemic mini-radiation, the pygmy geckos (Gekkonidae: Goggia). Zootaxa 4312 (3): 449–470 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
 
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