Afroedura haackei ONDERSTALL, 1984

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Haacke’s Flat Gecko, Haacke’s Rock Gecko
Synonym	Afroedura pondolia haackei ONDERSTALL 1984 Afroedura multiporis haackei — JACOBSON 1992: 22 Afroedura pondolia haackei — KLUGE 1993: 3 Afroedura multiporis haackei — BRANCH 1998 Afroedura multiporis haackei — RÖSLER 2000: 58 Afroedura multiporis haackei — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013 Afroedura multiporis haackei — BATES et al. 2014: 96 Afroedura haackei — JACOBSEN et al. 2014
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (Transvaal) Type locality: Farm Rhenosterkop (25°30’S, 31°00’E), 195 JU Nelspruit District, 6 km SE of Nelspruit, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa. Note that the locality is recorded as 6 km ‘S’ of Nelspruit in the catalogue, not as ‘SE’ as in the original description.
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 39540, adult male, collected by D. Onderstall, 8 December 1970
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Wulf D. Haacke (1936-2021), curator of Herpetology, Transvaal Museum (Pretoria). See Bates et al. 2022 for an obituary and bibliography.
References	Barts, M. & Hulbert, F. 2004. Die Geckos der Welt. Draco 5 (18): 4-17 - get paper here Barts, M.; Hulbert, F. & Haacke, W.D. 2005. Beobachtungen zur Eignung abgestorbener Aloe marlothii als Unterschlupf für Echsen im nordöstlichen Südafrika. Sauria 27 (1): 15-17 - get paper here Bates, Michael F; Graham J Alexander & Aaron M Bauer 2022. Tribute to a legend of southern African herpetology: Wulf Dietrich Haacke (1936–2021), with a bibliography of his herpetological contributions, African Journal of Herpetology, - 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. Jacobsen, N.H.G. 1992. Flat Geckos Genus Afroedura in the Transvaal. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (40): 22-25 - 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 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 Onderstall, D. 1984. Descriptions of two new subspecies of Afroedura pondolia (Hewitt) and a discussion of species groups within the genus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Annals Transvaal Museum 33: 497-509 - get paper here Power, J.H. 1935. A contribution to the herpetology of Pondoland. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1935: 333-346 Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 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 National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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