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Afroedura bogerti LOVERIDGE, 1944

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Namba Flat Gecko, Bogert's Rock Gecko 
SynonymAfroedura karroica bogerti LOVERIDGE 1944: 1
Afroedura bogerti — ONDERSTALL 1984
Afroedura bogerti — RÖSLER 2000: 57
Afroedura bogerti — BAUER 2013 (plates)
Afroedura cf. bogerti — HERRMANN & BRANCH 2013
Afroedura cf. bogerti — BUTLER et al. 2019 
DistributionEC Angola (Cuanza), Namibia

Type locality: Namba (Mombolo), Cuanza Sul Province, Angola [Mombolo: 12°10’S, 14°50’E, Missão da Namba: 11°55’ S, 14°51’E); restricted to the northern areas of Mombolo in the vicinity of Missão da Namba by Branch et al. 2021.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 47841, adult male 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Afroedura species are mostly medium-sized geckos, but range in size from approximately 35–80 mm in adult maximum SVL. The head and body are distinctly flattened. As in all gekkonids, eyelids do not function. Species of Afroedura are usually pinkish or tan in ground color overlain with darker blotches or other markings. Species of Afroedura are distinguished from other geckos by the following combination of characteristics: hyoid with second ceratobranchial cartilages; 14–15 scleral ossicles; stapedial foramen present; frontal single and parietal paired; cloacal bones present; phalangeal formula 2-3-4-5-3/2-3-4-5-4 (manus/pes); paraphalangeal elements absent; eye with vertical pupil having notched margins; digits free, moderate length, dilated throughout, with two or three pairs of adhesive pads along their length, the distalmost pair of pads larger than other pads; claws present, retractable; dorsal scalation consists of small, smooth, mostly uniform-sized granules; preanal pores present; tail fairly long, depressed, tapering, may be distinctly segmented; females lay two hard-shelled eggs (Loveridge 1944, Loveridge 1947, Kluge 1967, Branch 1998, Alexander and Marais 2007, Russell and Bauer 2008). 
CommentType species: Afroedura karroica bogerti LOVERIDGE 1944 is the type species of the genus Afroedura LOVERIDGE 1944.

Distribution: see map in Branch et al. 2017: 161, Branch et al. 2021: 57 (Fig. 1), Conradie et al. 2023: 280 (Fig. 3).

Group: The A. bogerti group consists of 7 species fide Conradie et al. 2022: bogerti, donveae, otjihipa, praedicta, pundomontana, vazpintorum, and wulfhaackei. This is a subgroup of the transvaalica group, which also includes transvaalica, loveridgei, and gorongosa. Morphological characters for the bogerti group are summarized in Conradie et al. 2022: 442 (Table 5).

Key: for a key to the transvaalica group see Conradie et al. 2022: 449 
EtymologyNamed after Charles Mitchill Bogert (1908-1992), former curator of the Department of Herpetology of the American Museum of Natural History. See biographical sketches in Gans 1993 and Myers & Zweifel 1993. 
References
  • BARTS, M. & COLACICCO, F. 2019. Afrikanische Felsengeckos: Feldnotizen und Terrarienhaltung von Arten der Gattung Afroedura Loveridg e, 1944 – Teil III: Afroedura bogerti (Loveridg e, 1944). Sauria 41 (3): 31-36 - get paper here
  • Barts, M. & HAACKE, W. 2009. Afroedura bogerti (Loveridge, 1944) Reproduction. African Herp News (50): 39 - get paper here
  • Bauer, A.M. 2013. Geckos - The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press, 159 pp.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Branch WR, Haacke W, Vaz Pinto P, Conradie W, Baptista N, Verburgt L, Verisimmo L 2017. Loveridge’s Angolan geckos, Afroedura karroica bogerti and Pachydactylus scutatus angolensis (Sauria, Gekkonidae): new distribution records, comments on type localities and taxonomic status. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 157-166. - get paper here
  • Branch WR, Schmitz A, Lobón-Rovira J, Baptista NL, António T, Conradie W 2021. Rock island melody: A revision of the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group, with descriptions of four new endemic species from Angola. Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(1): 55-82 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Butler, B O; Ceríaco, L M P; Marques, M P; Bandeira, S; Júlio, T; Heinicke, M P & Bauer, A M; 2019. Herpetological survey of Huíla Province, Southwest Angola, including first records of Bicuar National Park. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 225-240 - get paper here
  • Conradie W, Schmitz A, Lobón-Rovira J, Becker FS, Vaz Pinto P, Hauptfleisch ML 2022. Rock island melody remastered: two new species in the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group from Angola and Namibia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 435-453 - get paper here
  • Conradie, W., Lobón-Rovira, J., Becker, F. S., Schmitz, A., & Pinto, P. V. 2023. Flat gecko (Afroedura) diversity, endemism and speciation in the highlands and escarpments of Angola and Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment, 8, 277-281 - get paper here
  • 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. 1944. New geckos of the genera Afroedura, new genus, and Pachydactylus from Angola. American Museum Novitates 1254: 1-4 - get paper here
  • Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
  • Myers, C.W. & R.G. Zweifel 1993. Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Charles Mitchill Bogert, 1908-1992 Herpetologica 49 (1): 133-146. - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp.
 
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