Afroedura bogerti, Loveridge 1944
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.4.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620531 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/744387D5-B11C-A13C-EBAD-FBE6E568FA32 |
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Afroedura bogerti |
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Distribution. Namibe Province, Angola and adjacent northern Kaokoveld of northern Namibia (Branch 1998; Griffin 2003) ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ).
Remarks. This distinctive species was originally described by Loveridge (1944) as A. karroica bogerti , and was only elevated to specific status by Onderstall (1984). Afroedura bogerti and A. karroica possess the diagnostic features of different species groups and are separated from one another by a disjunction of approximately 2000 km; that they were previously considered conspecific is illustrative of the fact that herpetologists were reluctant to erect new specific level taxa for geckos of this genus, presumably because of the their general morphological conservatism ( Jacobsen 1997). Barts & Haacke (2010) provided data about reproduction in captivity.
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