Afroedura nivaria (BOULENGER, 1894)
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Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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Common Names | E: Mountain Flat Gecko, Drakensberg Rock Gecko |
Synonym | Oedura nivaria BOULENGER 1894: 609 Oedura nivaria — HEWITT 1927: 401 Afroedura nivaria — LOVERIDGE 1947: 263 Afroedura nivaria — WERMUTH 1965 Afroedura nivaria — RÖSLER 2000: 58 Afroedura nivara [sic] — BARTS & HULBERT 2004: 8 Afroedura nivaria — BATES et al. 2014: 97 |
Distribution | Republic of South Africa (SW Natal, E Cape Province, Orange Free State), Lesotho; elevation up to 2,500 m or higher.
Type locality: Summit of Drakensberg Range, Natal.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Type: BMNH 1946.8.23.62 (and possibly additional specimens). |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (33 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
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References |
- Barts, M. & Hulbert, F. 2004. Die Geckos der Welt. Draco 5 (18): 4-17 - get paper here
- 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.
- Boulenger, George Albert 1894. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of a new gecko from South Africa (Oedura nivaria). Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1894: 608 [page missing from Google books] - get paper here
- Hewitt, J. 1927. Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3 (5): 371-415
- 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
- Makhubo, Buyisile G.; Krystal A. Tolley, Michael F. Bates 2014. Molecular phylogeny of the Afroedura nivaria (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) species complex in South Africa provides insight on cryptic speciation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 31-42 - get paper here
- Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
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