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Rhoptropus barnardi HEWITT, 1926

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Barnard’s Namib Day Gecko 
SynonymRhoptropus barnardi HEWITT 1926: 413
Rhotropus barnardi [sic] — FITZSIMONS 1943: 118 (in error)
Rhoptropus barnardi — LOVERIDGE 1947: 289
Rhoptropus barnardi — WERMUTH 1965: 160
Rhoptropus barnardi — KLUGE 1993
Rhoptropus barnardi — RÖSLER 2000: 109
Rhoptropus barnardi — SCHNEIDER & BARTS 2014
Rhoptropus barnardi — SCHLEICHER 2020 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa, Angola, NW Namibia

Type locality: Eriksson’s Drift, Kunene River, Southwest Africa (= Angola)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: SAM 16639 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (33 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887-1964), a UK-born South African invertebrate zoologist particularly interested in marine crustaceans.  
References
  • Baptista NL, António T, Branch WR. 2019. The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2) [Special Section]: 96–130 (e203) - get paper here
  • Bauer A M. Good D A. 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of the day geckos, genus Rhoptropus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), of south-western Africa. Journal of Zoology 238 (4): 635- 663 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Branch, William R. & Haacke, Wulf D. 1993. The herpetofauna of the Kamanjab area and adjacent Damaraland, Namibia. Madoqua (Windhoek) 18 (2): 117-145. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cooper Jr., W.E. 2005. Duration of movement as a lizard foraging movement variable. Herpetologica 61 (4): 363-372 - get paper here
  • Gates, Bruce C. 2010. Day Geckos of Damaraland: Rhoptropus barnardi Hewitt, 1926, Rhoptropus boultoni Schmidt, 1933, and Rhoptropus diporus Haacke, 1965. Gekko 6 (1): 56-60
  • GOLDBERG, S.R. 2009. Rhoptropus barnardi. Reproduction. African Herp News (48): 15-16 - 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
  • Hewitt, J. 1926. Descriptions of new and little known lizards and batrachians from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 20 (6): 413-431
  • Hewitt, J. 1935. Some new forms of batrachians and reptiles from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. 4: 283-357
  • Kabisch, K. 2000. Exkursionen am Südrand des Erongo-Gebirges. Die Aquarien- und Terrarienzeitschrift 53 (4): 28-33
  • Lobón-Rovira J, Vaz Pinto P, S. Becker F, Tolley KA, Measey J, Bennet B, Boon B, de Sá S, Conradie W 2022. An updated herpetofaunal species inventory of Iona National Park in southwestern Angola. Check List 18(2): 289-321 - 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
  • Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
  • Röll, Beate 1998. Rhoptropus barnardi Hewitt. Sauria (Suppl.) 20 (3): 427-430 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2015. Reptilien Namibias. Namibia Scientific  Society, 276 pp.
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp.
  • Schneider, Christian and Mirko Barts. 2014. Die Geckos der Gattung Rhoptropus. Sauria 36 (3): 29-39 - get paper here
 
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