Afrogecko porphyreus
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Afrogecko
Species: Afrogecko porphyreus
Name
[edit]Afrogecko porphyreus (Daudin, 1802)
- Holotype: MNHN-RA 6732.
- Type locality: “île Santo Domingo”, corrected to “Cape of Good Hope” by Fitzsimons (1943).
Combinations
[edit]- Gecko porphyreus Daudin, 1802: 130 [original combination]
- Phyllodactylus porphyreus — Duméril & Bibron, 1836: 393 [subsequent combination]
- Afrogecko porphyreus — Bauer, Good & Branch, 1997: 476 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Phyllodactylus porphyreus namaquensis Hewitt, 1935: 320 [synonymised by Bauer, Good & Branch (1997: 478)]
- Holotype: PEM R16091 (formerly AMG 6943), collected by V.S. Peers on 28 August 1933.
- Type locality: “Bitterfontein, Namaqualand”, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
- Phyllodactylus porphyreus cronwrighti Hewitt, 1937: 205 [synonymised by Bauer, Good & Branch (1997: 478)]
- Syntypes (n=4): PEM R16085–6, R16087 (formerly AMG 7649) and R16088 (formerly AMG 7791), collected by Fred Cronwright, date unknown.
- Type locality: “Cape St. Francis”, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
Native distribution areas
[edit]- Republic of South Africa: Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces; including islands off the west coast: Robben, Jutten, Dassen, Meeuw, Marcus, Malgas, and Schappen.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Daudin, F.M. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Quatrième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 397 pp. + pls. XLVI–XLVIII. BHL Reference page.
- Hewitt, J. 1935. Some new forms of batrachians and reptiles from South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum 4: 283–357.
- Hewitt, J. 1937. Descriptions of South African lizards. Annals of the Natal Museum 8: 199–209.
- Bauer, A.M., Good, D.A. & Branch, W.R. 1997. The taxonomy of the Southern African leaf-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with a review of Old World "Phyllodactylus" and the description of five new genera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4th Series 49(14): 447–497. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Branch, W.R. & Bauer, A.M. 1997. Notes on two poorly-known Phyllodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 4(2): 127–133.
- Conradie, W., Branch, W.R. & Watson, G. 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576(1): 1–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1
Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Afrogecko porphyreus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 16 June 2023.
- Tolley, K.A., Alexander, G.J., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D., Weeber, J. & Bates, M.F. 2022. IUCN: Afrogecko porphyreus (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T169704A197403911. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T169704A197403911.en. Accessed on 16 June 2023.