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Pachydactylus rangei (Namib Sand Gecko, Web-footed gecko)

Synonyms: Palmatogecko rangei; Syndactylosaura schultzei

Wikipedia Abstract

Pachydactylus rangei, the Namib sand gecko or web-footed gecko, is a species of small lizard in the family Gekkonidae. It inhabits the arid areas of Angola and Namibia and was first described in 1908 by Swedish zoologist L.G. Andersson, who named it after its finder, German geologist Dr. Paul Range.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.8 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.472 inches (12 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.354 inches (9 mm)
Gestation [2]  63 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.362 inches (6 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

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
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa 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  
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

Bitis schneideri (Namaqua dwarf adder)[4]
Pythonodipsas carinata (Western Keeled Snake)[5]

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
♦ 4Ecology of the Namaqua Dwarf Adder, Bitis schneideri, Bryan Maritz, Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2011)
♦ 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
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