Pachydactylus caraculicus FitzSimons, 1959

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23C7E6E7-AE73-4685-AEDA-26DEB0EE0068

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196666

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/05B4931D-24F9-51C0-84CE-DB0BCB042AA0

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scientific name

Pachydactylus caraculicus FitzSimons, 1959
status

 

Pachydactylus caraculicus FitzSimons, 1959 View in CoL

Fig. 6 d, e View Figure 6

Records.

N’Dolondolo [- 13.8133, 13.1362, 681 m] ( CAS 10283, 10347); Maylowe [- 13.8342, 13.2767, 803 m] ( CAS 266145; MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001573); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2616, 804 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001574); 2 km N of Maylowe, rock outcrops near basecamp [- 13.8280, 13.2646, 8020 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001575 - 001581).

Comments.

The species is known from southwestern Angola and northwestern Namibia ( Marques et al. 2018). It is part of a diverse and primarily rupiculous “ northwestern clade ” of Pachydactylus ( Bauer and Lamb 2005; Heinicke et al. 2011), sister to P. angolensis Loveridge, 1944 and P. maiatoi ( Heinicke et al. 2017 b; Marques et al. 2023 a). Usually found in crevices and cracks of granitic boulders.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

MB

Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Pachydactylus