Lygodactylus angolensis Bocage, 1896

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 : 192

Lygodactylus angolensis Bocage, 1896

Angolan Dwarf Day Gecko ( Fig. 11 , Map 11)

Material (3 specimens): PEM R 23311, drive back from Cuchi to Menongue, -14.67986° 17.17512°, 1,391 m asl; PEM R 23343, 10 km west of Cuemba village, -12.03481° 18.04869°, 1,437 m asl; PEM R 23995 (iNaturalist 12123557), south of Cuito town, -12.43930° 16.99143°, 1,624 m asl. Description: Mental divided by a pair of lateral clefts; 81–87 (84) dorsal midbody scale rows; 21–22 ventral midbody scale rows; 7–8 supralabials; 7–8 infralabials; 2–3 scales touching nostril; 4 divided scansors under 4 th toe; 9 precloacal pores in a V-shape. Largest female: 29.8 + 34.0 mm ( PEM R 23995); largest male: 30.1 + 34.6 mm ( PEM R 23311). Habitat and natural history notes: Found on tree trunks during the day in miombo woodland. Comment: Assigned to L. angolensis based on the high number of precloacal pores (9) and the number of scales touching the nostril (~3; Marques et al. 2020). One specimen ( PEM R 23312) was found in sympatry with L. nyaneka and constitutes the southernmost Angolan record and the first from Cuando Cubango Province.

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Fig. 11. Adult female Lygodactylus angolensis (PEM R23995) from south of Cuito town. Photo by Alex Rebelo.