Pachydactylus punctatus Peters, 1854 is a animal in the Gekkonidae family, order null, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Pachydactylus punctatus Peters, 1854

Pachydactylus punctatus Peters, 1854

Pachydactylus punctatus is a thick-toed gecko species in the Gekkonidae family found across southern Africa.

Family
Genus
Pachydactylus
Order
Class
Squamata

About Pachydactylus punctatus Peters, 1854

Pachydactylus punctatus Peters, 1854, commonly called the pointed thick-toed gecko or the speckled thick-toed gecko, is a species of lizard that belongs to the Gekkonidae family. This species is distributed across southern Africa, with confirmed records in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, and the southern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Photo: (c) Joubert Heymans, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Joubert Heymans · cc-by-nc-nd

Taxonomy

Animalia Chordata Squamata Gekkonidae Pachydactylus

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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