Pachydactylus punctatus Peters, 1854

Bittencourt-Silva Keywords., Gabriela B., 2019, A herpetological survey of western Zambia, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 181) 13 (2), pp. 1-28 : 15

Pachydactylus punctatus Peters, 1854

Speckled Thick-toed Gecko

Material. ITEZHI-TEZHI: BMNH 2018.2757, BMNH 2018.2758 ( Fig. 7E ), BMNH 2018.2759. Comments: Specimens found at night in dry leaf litter in miombo woodland. All specimens have the dorsum covered with sub-uniform granules. The closest matches from GenBank (93% sequence similarity) are Pachydactylus punctatus ( AF 449120) and P. scherzi ( AY 123379). As the latter is only known from Namibia ( Bauer and Branch 1995), I assign these specimens to P. punctatus .

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Fig. 7. Reptiles of western Zambia. (A) Agama armata (BMNH 2018.2751), (B) Chamaeleo dilepis (BMNH 2018.2755), (C)–(D) Lygodactylus chobiensis (BMNH 2018.2743), (E) Pachydactylus punctatus, (F) Ichnotropis capensis (BMNH 2018.2750), (G) Meroles squamulosus (BMNH 2018.2753), (H) Trachylepis cf. albopunctata (BMNH 2018.2765), (I) Trachylepis varia (BMNH 2018.2769), (J) Typhlacontias rohani (BMNH 2018.2761), (K) Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia (BMNH 2018.2776), (L) Philothamnus hoplogaster (BMNH 2018.2775), (M) Rhamnophis aethiopissa ituriensis (BMNH 2018.2772), (N) Thelotornis kirtlandii (BMNH 2018.2760), (O) Atractaspis congica (BMNH 2018.2274), (P)–(R) Kinixys spekii.