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

Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt, 1923

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

Current name: Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt, 1923

Syntypes (2): PEM R12883–4 (formerly AMG 2103 ) ; 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 .

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.