Afroedura hawequensis MOUTON & MOSTET, 1985

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Haweqa Flat Gecko, Cape Rock Gecko
Synonym	Afroedura hawequensis MOUTON & MOSTET 1985 Afroedura hawequensis — RÖSLER 1995: 94 Afroedura hawequensis — MASHININI & MAHLANGU 2013
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (SW Cape Province, Hawekwa) Type locality: Hawekwa mountains near Paarl (33 figs 41’05”S 19°05’42”E), Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa, elevation 1140 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 58437, adult male
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Barts, M. 2021. Geckos aus dem südlichen Afrika. DATZ 2021 (5): 24-34 Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp. Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S. 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 Mouton P le F N; Mostert D P 1985. Description of a new species of Afroedura (Loveridge) (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the south-western Cape. South African J Zoology 20 (4) 1985: 246-249 - get paper here Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp. Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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