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Afroedura loveridgei BROADLEY, 1963

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Loveridge’s Rock Gecko 
SynonymAfroedura transvaalica loveridgei BROADLEY 1963: 286
Afroedura loveridgei — BAUER, GOOD & BRANCH 1997: 453
Afroedura loveridgei — BRANCH 1998
Afroedura loveridgei — RÖSLER 2000: 57
Afroedura transvaalica loveridgei —KLUGE 2001
Afroedura loveridgei — JACOBSEN et al. 2014 
DistributionC Mozambique

Type locality: 5 miles west of Tete, Mozambique  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: NMZB, previously UM 4030; paratypes: UM, TM, MCZ 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Readily distinguished from the typical form by the rostral being widely separated from the nostril (in contact with the nostril in 144 specimens of the typical form examined), this northern race is also smaller in size. Other characters show no significant differences, as shown in the following table (Table I compares transvaalica with loveridgei). (Broadley 1963)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Arthur Loveridge (1891-1980), American herpetologist. See Broadley 1980 for an obituary. 
References
  • Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp.
  • Bauer A M. Good D A. Branch W R. 1997. The taxonomy of the Southern African leaf-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with a review of Old World "Phyllodactylus" and the description of five new genera. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 49 (14): 447-497. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Branch, W. R. 1998. Field Guide to the Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. 3rd ed. Fully Revised and Updated to Include 83 New Species. Ralph Curtis Books (Sanibel Island, Florida), 399 pp.
  • BRANCH, WILLIAM R.; JENNIFER A. GUYTON, ANDREAS SCHMITZ, MICHAEL F. BAREJ, PIOTR NASKRECKI, HARITH FAROOQ, LUKE VERBURGT, MARK-OLIVER RÖDEL 2017. Description of a new flat gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Afroedura) from Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique. Zootaxa 4324 (1): 142–160 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. G. 1980. Obituaries on African Herpetologists- Loveridge, A. 1891 - 1980. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (23): 2-2 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843
  • Broadley, D.G. 1963. Three new lizards from South Nyasaland and Tete. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 6:285—288. - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1964. A Note on the Domestication of Afroedura transvaalica. J. Herp. Assoc. Rhodesia (22): 16-17 - get paper here
  • JACOBSEN, NIELS H. G.; ARIANNA L. KUHN, TODD R. JACKMAN & AARON M. BAUER 2014. A phylogenetic analysis of the southern African gecko genus Afroedura Loveridge (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with the description of nine new species from Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. Zootaxa 3846 (4): 451–501 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 1996. Die Reproduktion bei Plattgeckos (Afroedura Loveridge,1944), mit Beschreibung der Haltung und Vermehrung von Afroedura t. transvaalica (Hewitt,1925) im Terrarium. Herpetofauna 18 (102): 14-18 - get paper here
  • Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp.
  • Williams E E 1982. Arthur Loveridge—A Life in Retrospect. Breviora (471): 1-12 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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