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Rhoptropus afer (Namib Day Gecko)

Synonyms: Dactychylikion braconnieri; Rhoptropus braconnieri

Wikipedia Abstract

The common Namib day gecko (Rhoptropus afer) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is found in Namibia, southern Angola, and Botswana.
View Wikipedia Record: Rhoptropus afer

Attributes

Egg Length [1]  0.433 inches (11 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.276 inches (7 mm)
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Habitat Substrate [2]  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

Protected Areas

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

Predators

Pythonodipsas carinata (Western Keeled Snake)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Maxvachonia dimorpha <Unverified Name>[4]
Parapharyngodon rotundatus[4]
Spauligodon petersi[4]

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
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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