Hemidactylus tasmani Hewitt, 1932

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

Hemidactylus tasmani Hewitt, 1932

Annals of the Natal Museum, 7(1):105; Plate VI, Fig. 5 .

Syntypes (2): PEM R16077–8 (formerly AMG 5656 ) ; Driefontein, near Gwelo, Zimbabwe; Rev. K. Tasman, ‘ 10 September 1927 ’.

Remarks. Hewitt (1932) referred to an adult male and female as the ‘types’, but also mentioned one other specimen from Holy Cross. No specimens were illustrated, but specific emphasis was placed on the measurements of the adult female (PEM R16077). Both type specimens have a ventral incision. PEM R16078 has a detached tail and PEM R16077 has a flap of skin missing on the posterior dorsal part of the head. PEM has two additional specimens PEM R16079–80 (formerly AMG 5840) from Holy Cross that can only be referred to as ‘additional material’.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Family Gekkonidae III: A—Holotype of Pachydactylus capensis oculatus (PEM R11953), B—Lectotype of Pachydactylus capensis werneri (PEM R16049), C—Holotype of Pachydactylus kladaroderma PEM R11195), D—Syntype of Pachydactylus latirostris (R12884), E—Syntype of Pachydactylus maculatus albomarginatus (PEM R7625). All scale bars are 1 cm.