Afroedura_bogerti

Bogert's rock gecko

Bogert's rock gecko

Species of lizard

Bogert's rock gecko (Afroedura bogerti) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to southern Africa.

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Etymology

The specific name, bogerti, is in honor of American herpetologist Charles Mitchill Bogert.[3]

Geographic range

A. bogerti is found in Angola and Namibia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. bogerti is rocky areas in savanna, at altitudes of 50–2,000 m (160–6,560 ft).[1]

Description

Adults of A. bogerti have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 5 cm (2.0 in). Dorsally, the body is gray, with darker irregularly shaped crossbars. Ventrally it is white, speckled with brown.[2]

Reproduction

A. bogerti is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Baptista N, Bauer AM, Becker F, Conradie W, Ceríaco LMP (2020). "Afroedura bogerti ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T110186919A110186950.en. Downloadedon 19 August 2021.
  2. [2]
    Species Afroedura bogerti at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. [3]
    Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Afroedura bogerti, p. 30).

Further reading

  • Branch WR, Haacke W, Vaz Pinto P, Conradie W, Baptista N, Verburgt L, Verisimmo L (2017). "Loveridge's Angolan geckos, Afroedura karroica bogerti and Pachydactylus scutatus angolensis (Sauria, Gekkonidae): new distribution records, comments on type localities and taxonomic status". Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (1): 157–166. (in English, with an abstract in Portuguese).
  • Branch WR, Schmitz A, Lobón-Rovira J, Baptista NL, António T, Conradie W (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. (in English, with an abstract in Portuguese).
  • Loveridge A (1944). "New Geckos of the Genera Afroedura, New Genus, and Pachydactylus from Angola". American Museum Novitates (1254): 1–4. (Afroedura karroica bogerti, new subspecies, pp. 1–3, Figure 1).
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent, und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Afroedura bogerti, p. 57). (in German).



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