Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Gekkonidae > Chondrodactylus > Chondrodactylus angulifer

Chondrodactylus angulifer (Namib Giant Ground Gecko)

Synonyms: Chondrodactylus weiri

Infraspecies

Chondrodactylus angulifer angulifer
Chondrodactylus angulifer namibensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.7 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  11 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.748 inches (19 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.63 inches (16 mm)
Gestation [2]  70 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  3
Maximum Longevity [4]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Namib-Naukluft National Park II 12585619 Namibia  
National Diamond Coast Recreational Resort V 14514 Namibia  
Skeleton Coast Game Park II 4168395 Namibia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa No

Predators

Pythonodipsas carinata (Western Keeled Snake)[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Sexual dimorphism, diet and aspects if reproduction of the western keeled snake, Pythonodipsas carinata (Serpentes: Colubridae), W.R. Branch, R. Shine, P.S. Harlow and J.K. Webb, Afr. J. Herpetol. 1997, 46(2): 89-97
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0