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Rhoptropella ocellata (Ocellated Day Gecko; Namaqua Day Gecko)

Synonyms: Phelsuma ocellata; Rhoptropus ocellatus

Wikipedia Abstract

Phelsuma ocellata (now usually recognized as Rhoptropella ocellata), the Namaqua day gecko, ocellated day gecko, or spotted day gecko, is a species of lizard in the Gekkonidae family. It is found in southwestern Namibia and South Africa (Little Namaqualand).
View Wikipedia Record: Rhoptropella ocellata

Attributes

Egg Length [1]  0.315 inches (8 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.276 inches (7 mm)
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa Yes

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
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