Bogert's rock gecko (''Afroedura bogerti'') is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Gekkonidae
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. The species is native to southern
Africa
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.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''bogerti'', is in honor of American herpetologist
Charles Mitchill Bogert
Charles Mitchill Bogert (June 4, 1908 – April 10, 1992) was an American herpetologist, and curator of herpetology and researcher for the American Museum of Natural History.
Early life and education
Born in Mesa, Colorado, Bogert was a technicia ...
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Grayson may refer to:
Places Canada
* Grayson, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, Saskatchewan
United States
* Grayson, California
* Grayson, Georgia
** Grayson High School
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* Gray ...
(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Afroedura bogerti'', p. 30).
Geographic range
''A. bogerti'' is found in
Angola
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and
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
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Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''A. bogerti'' is rocky areas in
savanna
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, at altitudes of .
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Description
Adults of ''A. bogerti'' have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about . Dorsally
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, the body is gray, with darker irregularly shaped crossbars. Ventrally it is white, speckled with brown.[
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Reproduction
''A. bogerti is oviparous
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References
Further reading
* Branch WR, Haacke W, Vaz Pinto P, Conradie W, Baptista N, Verburgt L, Verisimmo L (2017). "Loveridge's Angolan geckos, ''Afroedura karroica bogerti'' and ''Pachydactylus scutatus angolensis'' (Sauria, Gekkonidae): new distribution records, comments on type localities and taxonomic status". ''Zoosystematics and Evolution'' 93 (1): 157–166. (in English, with an abstract in Portuguese).
*Branch WR, Schmitz A, Lobón-Rovira J, Baptista NL, António T, Conradie W (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. (in English, with an abstract in Portuguese).
* Loveridge A (1944). "New Geckos of the Genera ''Afroedura'', New Genus, and ''Pachydactylus'' from Angola". ''American Museum Novitates'' (1254): 1–4. (''Afroedura karroica bogerti'', new subspecies, pp. 1–3, Figure 1).
* Rösler H (2000). "''Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent, und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)''". ''Gekkota'' 2: 28–153. (''Afroedura bogerti'', p. 57). (in German).
bogerti
Reptiles of Angola
Reptiles of South Africa
Taxa named by Arthur Loveridge
Reptiles described in 1944
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