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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Namaqua Mountain Gecko, Montane Thick-toed Gecko 
SynonymPachydactylus montanus METHUEN & HEWITT 1914: 129
Pachydactylus montanus montanus FITZSIMONS 1943: 83
Pachydactylus serval — LOVERIDGE 1947: 388 (part)
Pachydactylus montanus — BAUER et al. 2006
Pachydactylus montanus — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013
Pachydactylus montanus — SCHLEICHER 2020 
DistributionNamibia (Lüderitz, Bethanie, Karasburg, and Keetmanshoop Districts),
Republic of South Africa (Northern Cape Province)

Type locality: “Lord Hill’s Peak in the Great Karas Mountains, at an altitude [elevation] of 7300 feet,”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: DNMNH (= TM) 3080, coll. P.A. Methuen, 17 January 1913). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small species, to 43.3 mm SVL. Pachydactylus montanusmay be distinguished from all other members of the P. serval/weberi group by the combination of the following characters: rostral enters nostril; supranasals in variable contact; scales on dorsum of head smooth, flattened to domed, those on snout much larger than those of interorbital region; scales of parietal region granular, homogeneous or with scattered conical tubercles scarcely larger than granules; dorsal scalation variable from nearly homogeneous to moderately heterogeneous, ranging from a few, small granular to flattened tubercles on sacrum, to slightly enlarged scattered tubercles on flanks and sacrum, to 10–12 regularly arranged rows of flattened, conical, or keeled tubercles across dorsum and flanks; toes moderately long with moderately wide pads; typically 5 undivided lamellae beneath digit IV of pes; tail to at least 115% SVL, moderately annulate, bearing whorls of relatively large, pointed, smooth to weakly keeled, well-separated, white to pale yellow tubercles; adult pattern buff, yellowish-brown or pinkish or purplish-gray with relatively large brown spots and/or cross bands, often retaining evidence of juvenile dark band edges; juvenile pattern of four dark-edged light (cream, buff, or yellowish brown) bands: nape, immediately behind axilla, mid-trunk, and presacral.
 
CommentLOVERIDGE 1947 synonymized Pachydactylus montanus and P. m. onscepensis with Pachydactylus serval.

HABITAT: This species is variable in its use of habitat, but is always associated
with rock crevices (Methuen and Hewitt 1914).

CONSERVATION STATUS.—Pachydactylus montanus occurs in the Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park. It is locally abundant, especially along the Orange River, but is patchy in its distribution. 
References
  • Barts, M. 2009. Die Dickfingergeckos des südlichen Afrikas. Teil IX: Pachydactylus montanus Methuen & Hewitt, 1914. Sauria 31 (4): 3-8 - 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, Aaron M. Lamb, Trip. Branch, William R. 2006. A revision of the Pachydactylus serval and P. weberi groups (Reptilia: Gekkota: Gekkonidae) of Southern Africa, with the description of eight new species. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 57 (12-24):595-709. - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M., Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Matthew P. Heinicke and David C. Blackburn. 2015. Geographic Distribution. Pachydactylus barnardi FitzSimons, 1941, Barnard's Rough Gecko. African Herp News (62): 35-37 - 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
  • Hewitt, J. 1927. Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3 (5): 371-415
  • Hewitt, J. 1935. Some new forms of batrachians and reptiles from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. 4: 283-357
  • Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Methuen,P.A. & Hewitt,J. 1914. [The Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to Great Namaqualand 1912-1913.] Records and descriptions of the reptiles and batrachians of the collection. Annals Transvaal Mus. 4 (3): 117-145 - get paper here
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp.
 
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