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    Pachydactylus austeni

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of lizard

    Pachydactylus austeni
    Scientific classification edit
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Reptilia
    Order: Squamata
    Family: Gekkonidae
    Genus: Pachydactylus
    Species:
    P. austeni
    Binomial name
    Pachydactylus austeni
    Hewitt, 1923[2]

    Pachydactylus austeni, also known commonly as Austen's thick-toed gecko or Austen's gecko, is a species of small thick-toed gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is indigenous to the western coast of South Africa .[3]

    Etymology

    The specific name, austeni, is in honour of English topographer Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen.[4]

    Habitat, behaviour and diet

    The natural habitat of P. austeni is coastal dunes and alluvial sands, at elevations up to 600 m (2,000 ft).[1] It lives in a tiny burrow that it digs in the sand, and it leaves its burrow at night to forage for small insects among the dune vegetation.[3]

    Description

    P. austeni has a smooth, colourful body with large eyes and conspicuous yellow or white eyelids.[3]

    Reproduction

    P. austeni is oviparous.[2]

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bates, M.F.; Bauer, A.M. (2018). "Pachydactylus austeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T196930A115662983. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T196930A115662983.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/196930/115662983. Retrieved 19 November 2021. 
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Species Pachydactylus austeni at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724015422/http://www.capenature.co.za/projects.htm?sm%5Bp1%5D%5Bcategory%5D=391&sm%5Bp1%5D%5Bpersistent%5D=1&. Retrieved 2010-11-30. 
    4. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pachydactylus austeni, p. 13).

    Further reading

    • Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN:0-88359-042-5. (Pachydactylus austeni, pp. 250–251 + Plate 82).
    • Hewitt J (1923). "Descriptions of Two New S. African Geckos of the Genus Pachydactylus ". Annals of the Natal Museum 5: 67–71. (Pachydactylus austeni, new species, pp. 67–69 + Plate IV, figures 1 & 2).
    • Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 98 (1): 1–469 + Plates 1–7. (Pachydactylus austeni, p. 349).
    • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Pachydactylus austeni, p. 98). (in German).


    See also Wikidata entry Q3008000.




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