Lygodactylus nyaneka Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota, and Bauer, 2020

Conradie, Werner, Keates, Chad, Verburgt, Luke, Baptista, Ninda L., Harvey, James, Júlio, Timóteo & Neef, Götz, 2022, Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi River drainages. Part 2: Lizards (Sauria), chelonians, and crocodiles, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 322) 16 (2), pp. 181-214 : 193

Lygodactylus nyaneka Marques, Ceríaco, Buehler, Bandeira, Janota, and Bauer, 2020

Nyaneka Dwarf Gecko ( Fig. 13 , Map 13)

Material (2 specimens): PEM R23312 , drive back from Cuchi to Menongue, -14.67986° 17.17512°, 1,391 m asl ; PEM R23540 , Longa River , -14.55956° 18.41389°, 1,320 m asl. Description: Mental divided by a pair of lateral clefts; 83 and 93 dorsal midbody scale rows; 16 and 22 ventral midbody scale rows; 7–8 supralabials; 7–8 infralabials; 3–4 scales touching nostril; 4 divided scansors under 4 th toe; 6 precloacal pores in a V-shape. Largest female: 32.4 + 30.3 mm ( PEM R23540 ); largest male: 35.2 + 17.4t mm ( PEM R23312 ). Habitat and natural history notes: Found in miombo woodland. Comment: We tentatively assign our new material ,

including the material reported as L. bradfieldi by Conradie et al. (2016), to this species based on shared morphological characters (number of scales touching the nostril and low number of precloacal pores, Marques et al. 2020) until further phylogenetic studies are conducted.

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Fig. 13.Adult male Lygodactylus nyaneka (PEM R23312) from west of Menongue. Photo by Werner Conradie.