''Rhoptropus'' is a
genus
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of
gecko
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Geckos ar ...
s
endemic
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to
Southern Africa
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, better known as Namib day geckos.
Classification of genus ''Rhoptropus''
The following
species
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*''
Rhoptropus afer''
W. Peters, 1869 — Namib day gecko
*''
Rhoptropus barnardi''
Hewitt, 1926 —
Barnard's Namib day gecko
[ Beolens B, Watkins M, ]Grayson M
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(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Rhoptropus barnardi'', p. 17; ''R. boultoni'', p. 35).
*''
Rhoptropus benguellensis''
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Geographical distribution
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, 1938 — Benguela day gecko
*''
Rhoptropus biporosus''
V. FitzSimons, 1957
*''
Rhoptropus boultoni''
K.P. Schmidt, 1933 —
Boulton's Namib day gecko
[
*'' Rhoptropus bradfieldi'' Hewitt, 1935
*'' Rhoptropus diporus'' Haacke, 1965
*'' Rhoptropus montanus'' ]Laurent
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, 1964 — mountain day gecko
*'' Rhoptropus taeniostictus'' Laurent, 1964
References
Further reading
* Bauer AE, Good DA (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics of the day geckos, genus, ''Rhoptropus'' (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), of south-western Africa". ''Journal of Zoology'' 238 (4): 635–663.
* Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I. Geckonidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus ''Rhoptropus'', p. 217).
* 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. . (Genus ''Rhoptropus'', p. 266).
* Peters W (1869). "''Eine Mittheilung über neue Gattungen und Arten von Eidechsen'' ". ''Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1869: 57–66 + one plate. (''Rhoptropus'', new genus, p. 58). (in Latin
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* Schneider C, Barts M (2014). "''Die Geckos der Gattung'' Rhoptropus". ''Sauria'' 36 (3): 29–39. (in German).
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Lizard genera
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters