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Afroedura praedicta Branch, Schmitz, Lobon-Rovira, Baptista, Antonio & Conradie 2021
Authors/Creators
- 1. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 1021, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal
- 2. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 1021, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal
- 3. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal
- 4. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- 5. Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
- 6. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal & Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Vertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Description
Afroedura praedicta Branch, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, António & Conradie, 2021
Fig. 5 g
Records.
Catchi, rock outcrops near basecamp [- 13.7653, 13.2571, 1645 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001552 - 001554).
Comments.
This recently described species is only known from the Serra da Neve inselberg and is considered a strict endemic (Branch et al. 2021; Conradie et al. 2023). This highland specialist was found in vertical walls of large granite boulders at night. A juvenile (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001552) was collected in rock crevices near a communal laying site with dozens of hatched eggs.
Genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820
Notes
Published as part of Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, pp. 167-217 in ZooKeys 1201 on pages 167-217, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Branch, Schmitz, Lobon-Rovira, Baptista, Antonio & Conradie
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Afroedura
- Species
- praedicta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Afroedura praedicta Branch, 2021 sec. Marques, Parrinha, Lopes-Lima, Tiutenko, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2024
References
- Branch WR, Schmitz A, Lobon-Rovira J, Baptista NL, Antonio 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. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zse. 97.57202
- 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. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.57202
- Conradie W, Lobón-Rovira J, Becker GS, Schmitz A, Pinto PV (2023) Flat gecko (Afroedura) diversity, endemism and speciation in the highlands and escarpments of Angola and Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment 8: 277 – 281.