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Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: Republic of South Africa, Angola , Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania (Tete GroÃ¡), Swaziland. turneri: Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Angola (Pico Acevedo), Kenya pulitzerae: N Namibia through S Angola. laevigatus: Little Namaqualand through S Angola.
Type locality: Tete, Mozambique.

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Turner's thick-toed gecko

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Turner's thick-toed gecko (Chondrodactylus turneri) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to southern Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, turneri, is in honor of British entomologist James Aspinall Turner.^[2]

Geographic range

C. turneri is found in Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.^[1]^[3]

Description

C. turneri is large and robust, with a snout-vent length (SVL) of 10 cm (3.9 in).^[4]

Behaviour

Turner's thick-toed gecko is nocturnal and lives on rocks and buildings.^[4]

Diet

C. turneri is an ambush predator and feeds on invertebrates and whatever else it can catch and overpower.^[4]

C. turneri at Selati, Limpopo

Reproduction

C. turneri is oviparous.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Species Chondrodactylus turneri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pachydactylus turneri, p. 269).
^ Branch (2004).
^ ^a ^b ^c Alexander, Graham; Marais, Johan (2007). A Guide to the Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik. 408 pp. ISBN 978-1770073869. (Chondrodactylus turneri, pp. 311-313).

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Turner's thick-toed gecko: Brief Summary