Geko wahlbergii Smith, 1849

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 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932099
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scientific name	Geko wahlbergii Smith, 1849
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Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa, Plate 75 and associated unnumbered text.

Current name: Homopholis wahlbergii (Smith, 1849)

Neotype: PEM R17603; Jozini Dam, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa; W.R. Branch, J. Marais and A. Bauer, 29 June 2008.

Remarks. Broadley et. al. (2014) designated PEM R17603 as a neotype as Smith (1849) never designated types. This specimen has a small ventral incision and its tail is missing.

Abbreviations

PEM	Port Elizabeth Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Gekkonidae
Genus	Geko

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