Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt 1923
Description
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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMG , PEM
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Pachydactylus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- R12883-4, AMG 2103
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hewitt
- Species
- latirostris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pachydactylus latirostris Hewitt, 1923 sec. Conradie, Branch & Watson, 2019
References
- Hewitt, J. (1923) Descriptions of two new S. African geckos of the genus Pachydactylus. Annals of the Natal Museum, 5, 67 - 71.
- Bauer, A. M., Heinicke, M. P., Jackman, T. R. & Branch, W. R. (2011) Systematics of the Pachydactylus mariquensis group of geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae): Status of P. mariquensis latirostris, P. m. macrolepis and P. amoenus. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein, 27 (4), 85 - 107.
- Loveridge, A. (1947) Revision of the African lizards of the Family Gekkonidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 98, 1 - 469.