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    Species Accepted

    Rhoptropus biporosus Fitzsimons, 1957

    Kaokoveld Namib Day Gecko
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Rhoptropus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Kaokoveld Namib Day Gecko English
      Orupembe Slender Gecko English

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      12 results
      Lobón-Rovira, J., Sierra, P., Portas, R., Pinto, P. V., & Martínez-Freiría, F. (2025). Noteworthy herpetological notes from Namibe Province, Angola. Herpetology Notes 18: 99-105.
      Bauer A M. Good D A. (1996). Phylogenetic systematics of the day geckos, genus Rhoptropus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), of south-western Africa. Journal of Zoology 238 (4): 635- 663.
      Mashinini, P. L. and Mahlangu, L. M. (2013). An annotated catalogue of the types of gekkonid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the Herpetology collection of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, South Africa. Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 3: 165-181.
      Schleicher, & Alfred. (2020). Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 Pp.
      FitzSimons, V. (1957). Reptilia. Serpentes and Sauria. In: Hanström-Perbrinck, B., and G. Rudebeck, South African animal lite. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, Pp. 385-405.
      Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer. (2018). Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II).
      Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch. (2013). Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115.
      Lobón-Rovira J, Vaz Pinto P, Becker F, S., Tolley KA, Measey J, Bennet B, Boon B, de Sá S, & Conradie W. (2022). An updated herpetofaunal species inventory of Iona National Park in southwestern Angola. Check List 18(2): 289-321.
      Schleicher, & Alfred. (2015). Reptilien Namibias. Namibia Scientific Society, 276 Pp.
      Schneider, Christian and Mirko Barts. (2014). Die Geckos der Gattung Rhoptropus. Sauria 36 (3): 29-39.

      Citation

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