Afroedura

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Afroedura

| image = Transvaal flat gecko (Afroedura transvaalica).jpg

| image_caption = Transvaal flat gecko (A. transvaalica)

| taxon = Afroedura

| authority = Loveridge, 1944"Afroedura ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Gekkota/Gekkonidae.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 34, see text.

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Afroedura is a genus of African geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae. Member species are collectively known as rock geckos or flat geckos.

In 2021, four new species of Afroedura were described from Angola.{{Cite journal|last1=Branch|first1=William R.|author1-link=William Roy Branch|last2=Schmitz|first2=Andreas|author2-link=species:Andreas Schmitz|last3=Lobón-Rovira|first3=Javier|author3-link=species:Javier Lobón-Rovira|last4=Baptista|first4=Ninda L.|author4-link=species:Ninda Baptista|last5=António|first5=Telmo|author5-link=species:Telmo António|last6=Conradie|first6=Werner|author6-link=species:Werner Conradie|date=2021|title=Rock island melody: A revision of the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group, with descriptions of four new endemic species from Angola|url=https://zse.pensoft.net/article/57202/|journal=Zoosystematics and Evolution|language=en|volume=97|issue=1|pages=55–82|doi=10.3897/zse.97.57202|issn=1860-0743|doi-access=free}}

Species

The genus Afroedura contains 34 species that are recognized as being valid.{{EMBL genus|genus=Afroedura}} www.reptile-database.org.

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Afroedura.

References

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Further reading

  • Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. {{ISBN|0-88359-042-5}}. (Genus Afroedura, p. 231).
  • Loveridge A (1944). "New geckos of the genera Afroedura, new genus, and Pachydactylus from Angola". American Museum Novitates (1254): 1-4. (Afroedura, new genus, p. 1).

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Category:Lizard genera

Category:Taxa named by Arthur Loveridge