Afroedura tirasensis HAACKE, 1965

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: African Rock Gecko
Synonym	Afroedura africana tirasensis HAACKE 1965 Afroedura africana tirasensis — MERTENS 1971 Afroedura africana tirasensis — BRANCH 1981 Afroedura africana tirasensis — ONDERSTALL 1984 Afroedura africana tirasensis — BRANCH 1998 Afroedura africana tirasensis —MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013 Afroedura tirasensis — JACOBSEN et al. 2014 Afroedura tirasensis — SCHLEICHER 2020
Distribution	Namibia (Karas) Type locality: Farm Tiras (about 26°12’S, 16°35’E), Bethanie district, Karas Province, SWA (now Namibia).
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 28376, adult male
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after the farm on which it was found.
References	Boulenger,G.A. 1888. On new or little known South African reptiles. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 2: 136-141 - get paper here Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S. Haacke, W. D. 1965. Additional notes on the herpetology of South West Africa with descriptions of two new subspecies of geckos. Cimbebasia (11):1-39 Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - 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 Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here Mashinini, P. L. and Mahlangu, L. M. 2013. An annotated catalogue of the types of gekkonid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the Herpetology collection of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, South Africa. Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 3: 165-181 Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp. 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
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.gekkota.org/html/a__africana.html Google images

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