Lygodactylus nyaneka Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota, and Bauer, 2020

Conradie, Werner, Keates, Chad, Verburgt, Luke, Baptista, Ninda L., Harvey, James, Júlio, Timóteo & Neef, Götz, 2022, Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi River drainages. Part 2: Lizards (Sauria), chelonians, and crocodiles, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 322) 16 (2), pp. 181-214 : 193

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13270044

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scientific name

Lygodactylus nyaneka Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota, and Bauer, 2020
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Lygodactylus nyaneka Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota, and Bauer, 2020 View in CoL

Nyaneka Dwarf Gecko ( Fig. 13 View Fig , Map 13)

Material (2 specimens): PEM R23312 , drive back from Cuchi to Menongue, -14.67986° 17.17512°, 1,391 m asl ; PEM R23540 , Longa River , -14.55956° 18.41389°, 1,320 m asl. Description: Mental divided by a pair of lateral clefts; 83 and 93 dorsal midbody scale rows; 16 and 22 ventral midbody scale rows; 7–8 supralabials; 7–8 infralabials; 3–4 scales touching nostril; 4 divided scansors under 4 th toe; 6 precloacal pores in a V-shape. Largest female: 32.4 + 30.3 mm ( PEM R23540 ); largest male: 35.2 + 17.4t mm ( PEM R23312 ). Habitat and natural history notes: Found in miombo woodland. Comment: We tentatively assign our new material ,

including the material reported as L. bradfieldi by Conradie et al. (2016), to this species based on shared morphological characters (number of scales touching the nostril and low number of precloacal pores, Marques et al. 2020) until further phylogenetic studies are conducted.

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Lygodactylus

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