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Afroedura - Wikipedia

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Afroedura

Transvaal flat gecko (A. transvaalica)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Subfamily:	Uroplatinae
Genus:	Afroedura Loveridge, 1944^[1]
Species
34, see text.

Afroedura is a genus of African geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae. Member species are collectively known as rock geckos or flat geckos.

In 2021, four new species of Afroedura were described from Angola.^[2]

Species

The genus Afroedura contains 34 species that are recognized as being valid.^[3]^[2]

Afroedura africana (Boulenger, 1888)
Afroedura amatolica (Hewitt, 1925) – Amatola rock gecko
Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 – Bogert's rock gecko^[4]
Afroedura broadleyi Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – Broadley's rock gecko
Afroedura donveae Branch, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, António & Conradie, 2021 – Iona flat gecko
Afroedura gorongosa Branch, Guyton, Schmitz, Barej, Naskrecki, Farooq, Verburgt & Rödel, 2017
Afroedura granitica Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – granite rock gecko
Afroedura haackei (Onderstall, 1984) – Haacke's rock gecko
Afroedura halli (Hewitt, 1935)
Afroedura hawequensis Mouton & Mostert, 1985 – Cape rock gecko, Hawequa flat gecko
Afroedura karroica (Hewitt, 1925)
Afroedura langi (V. Fitzsimons, 1930)
Afroedura leoloensis Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – Leolo rock gecko
Afroedura loveridgei Broadley, 1963 – Loveridge's rock gecko^[4]
Afroedura major Onderstall, 1984
Afroedura maripi Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – Maripi rock gecko
Afroedura marleyi (V. FitzSimons, 1930) – Marley's rock gecko, Marley's flat gecko
Afroedura multiporis (Hewitt, 1925) – Multipored rock gecko, Woodbush flat gecko
Afroedura namaquensis (V. FitzSimons, 1938) – Namaqua rock gecko, Namaqua flat gecko
Afroedura nivaria (Boulenger, 1894) – Drakensberg rock gecko, Drakensberg flat gecko
Afroedura otjihipa Conradie, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Becker, Vaz Pinto & Hauptfleisch, 2022 – Otjihipa flat gecko
Afroedura pienaari Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – Pienaar's rock gecko
Afroedura pondolia (Hewitt, 1925) – Pondo rock gecko, Pondo flat gecko
Afroedura pongola Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – Pongola rock gecko
Afroedura praedicta Branch, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Becker, António & Conradie, 2021 – Serra da Neve flat gecko
Afroedura pundomontana Conradie, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Becker, Vaz Pinto & Hauptfleisch, 2022 – Bocoio flat gecko
Afroedura rondavelica Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – Rondavels rock gecko
Afroedura rupestris Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014
Afroedura tembulica (Hewitt, 1926) – Queenstown rock gecko, Tembu flat gecko
Afroedura tirasensis Haacke, 1965
Afroedura transvaalica (Hewitt, 1925) – Transvaal rock gecko, Transvaal flat gecko
Afroedura vazpintorum Branch, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, António & Conradie, 2021 – Coastal flat gecko
Afroedura waterbergensis Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 – Waterberg rock gecko
Afroedura wulfhaackei Branch, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, António & Conradie, 2021 – Angolan flat gecko

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Afroedura.

References

^ "Afroedura ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Gekkota/Gekkonidae.
^ ^a ^b Branch, William R.; Schmitz, Andreas; Lobón-Rovira, Javier; Baptista, Ninda L.; António, Telmo; Conradie, Werner (2021). "Rock island melody: A revision of the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group, with descriptions of four new endemic species from Angola". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (1): 55–82. doi:10.3897/zse.97.57202. ISSN 1860-0743.
^ Genus Afroedura at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ ^a ^b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Afroedura bogerti, p. 30; A. loveridgei, p. 161).

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