Afroedura amatolica (HEWITT, 1925)
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Afroedura amatolica
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Amatola Flat Gecko, Amatola Rock Gecko |
| Synonym | Oedura amatolica HEWITT 1925: 349 Oedura amatolica — FITZSIMONS 1930: 23 Afroedura amatolica — WELCH 1994 Afroedura amatolica — JACOBSEN et al. 2014 |
| Distribution | Republic of South Africa (SE Cape Province, Amatola and Katberg Mountains) Type locality: near Hogsback (elevation: 6000 feet), Amatola Range, Cape Province |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: PEM 9439-9441 |
| Diagnosis | Original description: “This species has considerable resemblance to pondolia, in the characters of the scutellation of snout and chin, but seems distinct therefrom in the digital characters: there are smaller differences in the number of preanal pores, and in the segmentation of the tail. A stout heavy form. Large nasals separated from each other by an enlarged granule. Rostral and first labial entering the nostril. Rostral hardly twice as broad as high. Mental large, slightly broader than the first labial at its base, narrowing towards its apex, subpentagonal or subtriangular. Enlarged chin-shields present. Lower labials 7-9. Dorsal scales convexly granular on the head throughout, somewhat flattened and subimbricate on the back, smallest on the occiput. Digits of hands and feet rather stout, each with two pairs of well-developed adhesive plates at the distal end of the basal portion inferiorly: there is an inferomedian row of about six or seven enlarged scales, all of which are much elongated transversely, the distal one very greatly so, being dumb-bell shaped. Male with an oblique row of four tubercles at the base of the tail on each side of the vent, the uppermost largest: 12 preanal pores. Tail a little depressed, and showing distinct segmentation at the sides, but this is scarcely noticeable to the naked eye: reproduced portion without segmentation.” (Hewitt 1925) Coloration: “Above brownish grey with about seven or eight irregular wavy, darker cross-stripes on the back: loreal region dark, but no definite stripe.” (Hewitt 1925) Size: “Total length 100, tail (partly reproduced) 46, breadth of head 11.5.” (Hewitt 1925) |
| Comment | Synonymy: Has been synonymized with Afroedura nivaria by LOVERIDGE 1947, Wermuth 1965, and others. Type not in South Africa fide SAMA catalog (Anonymous 1958). |
| Etymology | named after the type locality. |
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