Abel Erasmus flat gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Afroedura
Species:
A. rupestris
Binomial name
Afroedura rupestris
Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014

Afroedura rupestris, also known as the Abel Erasmus flat gecko, is a species of African gecko, first found in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa.[2]

References

  1. Pietersen, D.; Conradie, W.; Weeber, J.; Alexander, G.J.; Tolley, K.A. (2022). "Afroedura rupestris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T110194092A197427113. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T110194092A197427113.en. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  2. Jacobsen, Niels H. G.; Kuhn, Arianna L.; 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): 451–501. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3846.4.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25112263.

Further reading

  • Perera, Sandun J., Dayani Ratnayake-Perera, and Serban Proches. "Vertebrate distributions indicate a greater Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany region of endemism." South African Journal of Science 107.7-8 (2011): 52–66.


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