Loveridge’s Angolan geckos, Afroedura karroica bogerti and Pachydactylus scutatus angolensis (Sauria, Gekkonidae): new distribution records, comments on type localities and taxonomic status

In 1944 Loveridge described two new geckos from Angola Afroedura karroica bogerti and Pachydactylus scutatus angolensis. The descriptions of both species have vague and confusing type localities and refinements are suggested based on early expedition reports historical accounts from the region and a...

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Main Authors: William R. Branch, Wulf Haacke, Pedro Vaz Pinto, Werner Conradie, Ninda Baptista, Luke Verburgt, Luis Verisimmo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2017-03-01
Series:Zoosystematics and Evolution
Online Access:http://zse.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10915