Afroedura namaquensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Afroedura
Species: Afroedura namaquensis

Name

Afroedura namaquensis (Fitzsimons, 1938)

• Holotype: TM 18094, adult ♂, collected by V. Fitzsimons on 25 August 1937.
• Type locality: “Little Namaqualand, 32 miles from Springbok on the road to Kamaggas”, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
• Paratypes (n=10): TM 18095–18104, six adult ♂, two adult ♀ and two juveniles, same data as for holotype.

Combinations

• Oedura namaquensis FitzSimons, 1938: 163 [original combination]
• Afroedura namaquensis — Loveridge, 1947: 265 [subsequent combination]
• Afroedura africana namaquensis — Haacke, 1965 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]
• Afroedura namaquensis — Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014: 470 [subsequent combination, restaure to species]

References

Primary references

• Jacobsen, N.H.G., Kuhn, A.L., Jackman, T.R. & Bauer, A.M. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.4.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Afroedura namaquensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 27 December 2022.
• Bates, M.F. & Bauer, A.M. 2022. IUCN: Afroedura namaquensis  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T196887A197409148. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T196887A197409148.en. Accessed on 27 December 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Namaqua Rock Gecko