Werner's thick-toed gecko (''Pachydactylus werneri'') is a
species of
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the
family Gekkonidae. The species is
endemic to
Namibia.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''werneri'', is in honor of Austrian herpetologist
Franz Werner
Franz Josef Maria Werner (15 August 1867 in Vienna – 28 February 1939 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, inse ...
.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Pachydactylus werneri'', p. 282).]
Geographic range
In Namibia ''P. werneri'' is found in the areas around
Karibib,
Maltahöhe
Maltahöhe is a village in southern central Namibia close to the Swartrand escarpment, about 110 km west of Mariental in the Hardap Region. It has about 6,000 inhabitants and owns about 17,000 hectares of land. Maltahöhe has two suburbs, th ...
, and
Swakopmund.
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Description
''P. werneri'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .[
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Reproduction
''P. werneri'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
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References
Further reading
* Bauer AM, Lamb T, Branch WR (2006). "A revision of the ''Pachydactylus serval'' and ''P. weberi'' groups (Reptilia: Gekkota: Gekkonidae) of Southern Africa, with the description of eight new species". ''Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series'' 57: 595–709. (''Pachydactylus werneri'', pp. 654–655 + Figures 54–57).
* FitzSimons VF (1943). ''The Lizards of South Africa''. Pretoria: Transvaal Museum. xvi + 528 pp. (''Pachydactylus werneri'', new status, p. 85).
* Hewitt J (1935). "Some new forms of batrachians and reptiles from South Africa". ''Records of the Albany Museum'' 4: 283–357. (''Pachydactylus capensis werneri'', new subspecies, p. 315).
* Wermuth H (1965). "''Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae''". ''Das Tierreich'' 80: 1–246. (''Pachydactylus werneri'', p. 124). (in German).
Endemic fauna of Namibia
Pachydactylus
Reptiles of Namibia
Reptiles described in 1935
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