Pachydactylus punctatus amoenoides Hewitt, 1935

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2019, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata), Zootaxa 4576 (1), pp. 1-45 : 19

Pachydactylus punctatus amoenoides Hewitt, 1935

Records of the Albany Museum, 4:314; Plate XXVII, Fig. 3 .

Current name: Pachydactylus punctatus amoenoides Hewitt, 1935

Syntypes (2): PEM R8070–1 (formerly AMG 5475 ) ; Luderitzbucht (= Lüderitz Bay ), Namibia; Miss E. Saunders, ‘ 21 December 1926 ’.

Remarks: The description refers only to two specimens as being types. Both specimens are in poor condition, with ventral incisions. PEM R8071 with a missing tail. The description further mentions a third specimen PEM R8072 (formerly AMG 6421) from Swakopmund collected by R.D. Bradfield, assignable to this species and thus can only be regarded as additional non-type material.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Family Gekkonidae I: A—Neotype of Geko wahlbergii (PEM R17603), B—Syntype of Hemidactylus tasmani (PEM R16077), C—Syntype of Lygodactylus bradfieldi (PEM R14590), D—Syntype of Lygodactylus stevensoni (PEM R16074). All scale bars are 1 cm.