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Narudasia festiva (Festive rock gecko)

Wikipedia Abstract

Narudasia is a monotypic genus of geckos endemic to Namibia better known as festive gecko. They are related to the Quedenfeldtia (Atlas day geckos) of the Sahara. \n* Festive gecko, Narudasia festiva - is a diurnal, rock-dwelling gecko, reaching 2 to 3 inches in length, that lives on small insects. Body and head are somewhat flattened. Overall color is grey with alternating brownish bands on the back, edged with black and white towards the rear. The long tail may be yellow.
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Attributes

Egg Length [1]  0.315 inches (8 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.236 inches (6 mm)
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.181 inches (3 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Kalahari xeric savanna Botswana, Namibia, South Africa Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands Angola, Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Namib-Naukluft National Park II 12585619 Namibia  

Predators

Pythonodipsas carinata (Western Keeled Snake)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Meiri, 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
♦ 3Sexual 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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