Lygodactylus baptistai Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota & Bauer, 2020

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, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Lygodactylus baptistai Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota & Bauer, 2020

Fig. 6 b

Records.

Mamué riparian area [- 13.8008, 13.1235, 715 m] ( CAS 263557), [- 13.8004, 13.1246, 748 m] ( CAS 263551); MPLA post near Catchi [- 13.7618, 13.2514, 1614 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001569 - 001571); near Ondjili, between Catchi and Lutala crater (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001572).

Comments.

This recently described species is only known from the Serra da Neve inselberg and is considered a strict endemic. The species was recently described from the inselberg by Marques et al. (2020). Lygodactylus baptistai appears to be the single representative of this lineage in southwestern Africa. Morphologically it is also more similar to those species found on inselbergs of Mozambique such as L. rex Broadley, 1963 and L. regulus Portik, Travers, Bauer & Branch, 2013 ( Portik et al. 2013 b) than to the other species known from Angola, L. angolensis Bocage, 1896 and L. nyaneka Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota & Bauer, 2020 , both restricted to Miombo forested areas, or L. lawrencei Hewitt, 1926 , an arid zone specialist.

Figures

Figure 6. a Chondrodactylus pulitzerae b Lygodactylus baptistai c Lygodactylus nyaneka d, e Pachydactylus caraculicus (adult and juvenile) f Pachydactylus maiatoi g Pachydactylus cf. punctatus h Rhoptropus aff. barnardi. Photographs by AT (a, d, e, g); IA (b, f) and LMPC (c, h).