Chondrodactylus fitzsimonsi ( Loveridge, 1947 )

Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2), pp. 15-61 : 23

FITZSIMONS’ THICK-TOED GECKO – Fig. 5

Chondrodactylus fitzsimonsi ( Loveridge, 1947)

MATERIAL.— Espinheira, 30 November 2013, 16º47ʹ14.3ʺS, 12º21ʹ29.4ʺE, 457 m ( CAS 254814 ); INP, north of Tambor , 4 December 2013, 15º59ʹ46.9ʺS, 12º24ʹ24ʺE, 300 m ( CAS 254841 ) .

COMMENTS.— Only four records of this species are known for the country: Ongueria, 55 km from Sá da Bandeira (presently Lubango), in Huíla Province (Laurent 1964a), Praia das Conchas (Laurent 1964a), “around Moçâmedes in the road to Sá da Bandeira” (Laurent 1964a) and Pico Azevedo ( Schmidt 1933), both in Namibe Province. Our records represent southern range extensions for the species in the country, although the species extends into west-central Namibia ( Bauer et al. 1993). In both Namibia and Angola it can occur sympatrically with other, similarly sized congeners, but is generally more restricted to rocky habitats than either C. pulitzerae or C. turneri .

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FIGURE 5. Adult male FitzSimons’Thick-toed Gecko, Chondrodactylus fitzsimonsi (Loveridge, 1947), from northern Kaokoveld, Kunene Region, Namibia. Photo courtesy of Johan Marais.