Ramigekko swartbergensis

Ramigekko swartbergensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Lacertilia Infraordo: Gekkota Parvordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Ramigekko swartbergensis (Haacke, 1996)

Holotype: TM 56468, adult ♂, collected by W.D. Haacke on 31 January 1983.
Type locality: “Swartberg Pass, near forestry quarters on north-facing slope, Groot Swartberge 33°20’S, 22°02’E = 3322Ac, altitude 1580 m, Oudtshoorn district, Western Cape Province, South Africa”.

Phyllodactylus swartbergensis Haacke, 1996: 230 [original combination]
Afrogecko swartbergensis — Bauer, Good & Branch, 1997: 476 [subsequent combination]
Ramigekko swartbergensis — Heinicke, Daza, Greenbaum, Jackman & Bauer, 2014: 35 [subsequent combination]

Republic of South Africa: Western Cape Province: restricted to high elevation areas of the Groot and Klein Swartberg ranges.

Haacke, W.D. 1996. Description of a new species of Phyllodactylus Gray (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the Cape Fold Mountains, South Africa. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 36(18): 229–237.
Bauer, A.M., Good, D.A. & Branch, W.R. 1997. The taxonomy of the Southern African leaf-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with a review of Old World "Phyllodactylus" and the description of five new genera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4th Series 49(14): 447–497. BHL Reference page.
Heinicke, M.P., Daza, J.D., Greenbaum, E., Jackman, T.R. & Bauer, A.M. 2014. Phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography of a circum-Indian Ocean clade of leaf-toed geckos (Reptilia: Gekkota), with a description of two new genera. Systematics and Biodiversity 12(1): 23–42. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2013.877999 Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Ramigekko swartbergensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 23 July 2020.
Tolley, K., Bates, M.F. & Branch, W.R. 2018. IUCN: Ramigekko swartbergensis (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T196903A115661608. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T196903A115661608.en

English: Swartberg African Leaf-toed Gecko

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