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

Afroedura
Transvaal flat gecko (A. transvaalica)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Subfamily: Uroplatinae
Genus: Afroedura
Loveridge, 1944[1]
Species

34, see text.

In 2021, four new species of Afroedura were described from Angola.[2]

Species

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The genus Afroedura contains 34 species that are recognized as being valid.[3][2]

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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  1. ^ "Afroedura ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Gekkota/Gekkonidae.
  2. ^ a b Branch, William R.; Schmitz, Andreas; Lobón-Rovira, Javier; Baptista, Ninda L.; António, Telmo; Conradie, Werner (2021). "Rock island melody: A revision of the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group, with descriptions of four new endemic species from Angola". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (1): 55–82. doi:10.3897/zse.97.57202. ISSN 1860-0743.
  3. ^ Genus Afroedura at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Afroedura bogerti, p. 30; A. loveridgei, p. 161).

Further reading

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  • 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).