Afroedura halli, Hewitt, 1935

Jacobsen, Niels H. G., Kuhn, Arianna L., Jackman, Todd R. & Bauer, Aaron M., 2014, A phylogenetic analysis of the southern African gecko genus Afroedura Loveridge (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with the description of nine new species from Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa, Zootaxa 3846 (4), pp. 451-501 : 471

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0DD5A603-D65F-4976-BBE9-94DA7110053F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620551

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/744387D5-B118-A138-EBAD-FE9DE365FCB2

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scientific name

Afroedura halli
status

 

A. halli ( Hewitt, 1935)

Distribution. Western Lesotho and adjacent southeastern Free State and Eastern Cape provinces, South Africa ( Bates & Bauer 2014a) ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ).

Remarks. This species was previously considered a subspecies of A. karroica (e.g., Loveridge 1947; Wermuth 1965; Branch et al. 1988; Kluge 1991, 1993) but was elevated to specific status by Bates (1996), although without substantial discussion, and some later authors, especially outside of South Africa, have continued to include it within A. karroica (e.g., Kluge 2001). One subspecies, A. k. wilmoti , has been variously recognized as valid ( FitzSimons 1943) or not ( Loveridge 1947; Branch 1981). Its status is under review ( Bates & Branch 1998). Our sampling included a single specimen resembling A. halli that was deeply divergent from all other samples ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ), supporting the findings of Makhubo (2013), who found multiple divergent clades within the species. Although the distinctiveness of this specimen in our two-gene analysis may be artificially high due to the absence of RAG1 sequence (Table 2), the>20% ND2 divergence from typical A. halli , which vary among themselves by 0.20–3.02%, supports the view that this represents a different species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Afroedura

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