Pachydactylus vansoni

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| name = Van Son's thick-toed gecko

| image = Pachydactylus vansoni.jpg

| image_caption = In the Soutpansberg, South Africa

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bates, M.F. |author2=Bauer, A.M. |date=2018 |title=Pachydactylus vansoni |volume=2018 |page=e.T174124A115657940 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T174124A115657940.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Pachydactylus vansoni

| authority = V. FitzSimons,1933

| synonyms = *Pachydactylus capensis vansoni
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Pachtdactylus vansoni
{{small|— Bauer & Good, 1996}}

| range_map = Pachydactylus vansoni distribution.png

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Pachydactylus vansoni, commonly known as Van Son's gecko or Van Son's thick-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Southern Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, vansoni, is in honor of Russian-born Dutch entomologist Georges Van Son (1898-1967), who worked at the Transvaal Museum (1925-1967).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Pachydactylus vansoni, pp. 272-273).

Geographic range

P. vansoni is distributed in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe. The geographic range of this species is estimated to be larger than 100,000 km² (38,610 sq mi).