Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt, 1923

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 : 17

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932138

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scientific name

Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt, 1923
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Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt, 1923

Annals of the Natal Museum, 5:69; Plate IV, Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 .

Current name: Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt, 1923

Syntypes (2): PEM R12883–4 View Materials (formerly AMG 2103 View Materials ) ; Victoria West, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; Mr. B. Marais, date unknown .

Remarks: The description lists two specimens in AMG (now PEM) and one in NMP. At some stage the AMG material must have dried up and been damaged. Although the tail is missing, the body deformed and colour bleached, we can confidently assign PEM R12884 to the specimen illustrated in the original description. The type description mentions an additional specimen from between ‘Zwaart Modder and Rietfontein’ from the Kimberly Museum [McGregor Museum] send to AMG, now PEM R12385. Bauer et al. (2011) elevated all subspecies of Pachydactylus mariquensis recognised by Loveridge (1947) to specific status, including P. latirostris .

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Pachydactylus

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