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Meroles anchietae (Anchieta's Desert Lizard)

Synonyms: Pachyrhynchus anchieta; Pachyrhynchus anchietae

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.4 grams
Female Weight [2]  2 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  3
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.575 inches (4 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Kaokoveld desert Namibia, Angola Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namib desert Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Skeleton Coast Game Park II 4168395 Namibia  

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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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