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Narudasia festiva METHUEN & HEWITT, 1914

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymNarudasia festiva METHUEN & HEWITT 1914
Quedenfeldtia festiva — LOVERIDGE 1947: 69
Narudasia festiva — UNDERWOOD 1954: 473
Narudasia festiva — WERMUTH 1965: 110
Narudasia festiva — KLUGE 1993
Narudasia festiva — RÖSLER 1995: 135
Narudasia festiva — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013
Narudasia festivae — BARTS 2021 (in error) 
DistributionC/S Namibia

Type locality: South Narudas, on the foothills of the Karas-Mountains, SW Africa.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: DNMNH (= TM) 3038, BMNH 1946.8.20.47 (and possibly additional specimens). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Narudasia is very small, reaching only about 30 mm in SVL. They are relatively gracile in form, with depressed head and body, the head being long. As in all gekkonids, eyelids do not function. Narudasia is brightly colored, with a purplish-brown body and yellow-orange tail, plus dark wavy crossbands. Narudasia can be distinguished from other geckos by the following combination of characteristics: hyoid with second ceratobranchial cartilages; 14 scleral ossicles; stapedial foramen present; frontal single; parietal paired; cloacal bones absent; phalangeal formula 2-3-4-5-3/2-3-4-5-4 or 2-3-4-5-4/2-3-4-5-4 (manus/pes); paraphalangeal elements absent; eye with vertical pupil having notched margins; digits free, long, and slender, adhesive lamellae absent; claws prominent; dorsal scalation consists of small, smooth granules; preanal pores absent; tail long, tapering; females lay two hard-shelled eggs (Methuen and Hewitt 1914, Loveridge 1947, Kluge 1967, Branch 1998, Alexander and Marais 2007, Russell and Bauer 2008). 
CommentThis is the only reptile genus that is strictly endemic to Namibia (although it may occur in neighbouring South Africa fide BAUER & BRANCH 2003)

Type species: Narudasia festiva METHUEN & HEWITT 1914 is the type species of the genus Narudasia METHUEN & HEWITT 1914. 
Etymologynamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Barts, M. 2021. Geckos aus dem südlichen Afrika. DATZ 2021 (5): 24-34
  • Barts, Mirko 2018. Haltung und Vermehrung von Narudasia festiva. Draco 16 (64): 46-49 [2015] - get paper here
  • Bauer, A. M., Ceríaco, L. M. P., Marques, M. P., & Becker, F. S. 2023. Highland reptiles of Angola and Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment, 8, 259-276 - get paper here
  • Bauer, A.M., and Branch, W.R. 2003. The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8: 111-160 [2001]
  • Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
  • Daza, Juan D.; Aurich, Janina; Bauer, Aaron M. 2012. Anatomy of an enigma: an osteological investigation of the Namibian festive gecko (Narudasia festiva: Gekkonidae: Gekkota). Acta Zoologica 93 (4): 465-486 - get paper here
  • Hall, Margaret I. 2008. Comparative analysis of the size and shape of the lizard eye [corneal diameters and axial lengths of 116 lizard species]. Zoology 111 (1): 62-75 - 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
  • 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
  • Methuen,P.A. & Hewitt,J. 1914. [The Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to Great Namaqualand 1912-1913.] Records and descriptions of the reptiles and batrachians of the collection. Annals Transvaal Mus. 4 (3): 117-145 - get paper here
  • Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp.
  • Underwood, Garth 1954. On the classifcation and evolution of geckos. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 124 (3): 469-492
 
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