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Lygodactylus waterbergensis JACOBSEN, 1992

IUCN Red List - Lygodactylus waterbergensis - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Waterberg Dwarf Gecko 
SynonymLygodactylus waterbergensis JACOBSEN 1992: 538
Lygodactylus (Lygodactylus) waterbergensis — RÖSLER 2000: 95
Lygodactylus waterbergensis — RÖLL et al. 2010
Lygodactylus waterbergensis — BATES et al. 2014: 124
Lygodactylus waterbergensis — TRAVERS et al. 2014
Lygodactylus waterbergensis — STANDER 2023: 161 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (Transvaal)

Type locality: Farm Sterkrivier, Nedersetting (NRNS) 253 KR (24°12’S, 28°42’E), Potgietersrus district, Transvaal (now Limpopo Province), South Africa.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: DNMNH (= TM) 58939 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the Waterberg District where the type specimens were found. 
References
  • 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.
  • Jacobsen N H G. 1992. NEW LYGODACTYLUS TAXA (REPTILIA: GEKKONIDAE) FROM THE TRANSVAAL. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 43 (4): 527- 542. - 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
  • Röll, Beate; Heike Pröhl, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann 2010. Multigene phylogenetic analysis of Lygodactylus dwarf geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (1): 327-335 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Stander, R.I. 2023. The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 pp. - get paper here
  • 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
  • Travers, Scott L.; Todd R. Jackman, Aaron M. Bauer 2014. A molecular phylogeny of Afromontane dwarf geckos (Lygodactylus) reveals a single radiation and increased species diversity in a South African montane center of endemism. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here
 
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