Afroedura loveridgei Broadley, 1963

Loveridge’s Flat Gecko

TAXONOMY

Original Description: Broadley, D.G. (1963). Three new lizards from South Nyasaland and Tete. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6(65): 285–288.
Original name: Afroedura transvaalica loveridgei Broadley, 1968
Taxonomic Status: Accepted
Type Material: Holotype: UM(NMZB) 4030

GEOGRAPHY

Country Occurrence: Mozambique
Geographic Occurrence: Tete and Manica provinces
Distribution Notes:
Type Locality: “5 miles west of Tete, Mozambique” (Broadley, 1963)

CONSERVATION

Status: Least Concern

Citation
Nicolau et al. (2025). African Herpetological and Biodiversity Institute: African Herpetology Checklist. Afroedura loveridgei. https://www.africanherpetologicalandbiodiversityinstitute.com/africanreptiles/species7722. Accessed on dd/mm/yyyy.

Edit history
05-03-2025 (Gary Kyle Nicolau)

LITERATURE

Branch, W. R., Schmitz, A., Lobón-Rovira, J., Baptista, N. L., António, T., & Conradie, W. (2021). Rock island melody: A revision of the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group, with descriptions of four new endemic species from Angola. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 97(1), 55-82.
Branch, W. R., Haacke, W., Pinto, P. V., Conradie, W., Verburgt, L., & Baptista, N. (2017). Loveridge's Angolan geckos, Afroedura karroica bogerti and Pachydactylus scutatus angolensis (Sauria, Gekkonidae): new distribution records, comments on type localities and taxonomic status.
Branch, W. R., Guyton, J. A., Schmitz, A., Barej, M. F., Naskrecki, P., Farooq, H., ... & Roedel, M. O. (2017). Description of a new flat gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Afroedura) from Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique. Zootaxa, 4324(1), 142-160.
Broadley, D. G. (1963). Three new lizards from south Nyasaland and Tete. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6(65), 285-288.
Broadley, D. G. (1962). On some reptile collections from the north-western and north-eastern districts of Southern Rhodesia, 1958-61, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia, 3, 787-843.
Conradie, W., Schmitz, A., Lobón-Rovira, J., Becker, F. S., Pinto, P. V., & Hauptfleisch, M. L. (2022). Rock island melody remastered: two new species in the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group from Angola and Namibia. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 98(2), 435-453.
Loveridge, A. (1960). Status of new vertebrates described or collected by Loveridge. Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society, 23, 250-80.
Nicolau, G. K., & Edwards, S. (2023). Diversity and Endemism of Southern African Gekkonids Linked with the Escarpment Has Implications for Conservation Priorities. Diversity, 15(2), 306.

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