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Least Concern (LC)
Assessors: Michael Bates
Contributors: Josh Weeber
Facilitators: Graham Alexander Krystal Tolley
Reviewers: Buyisile Makhubo Werner Conradie Adrian Armstrong Bryan Maritz

Rationale

Although this species has a small range (extent of occurrence = 734 km2 ),  there are no known threats. Part of its distribution is within areas that have transformed habitat, but much of the distribution is within protected areas. The species is considered Least Concern.

Distribution

Found only on the slopes of Mariepskop and in God’s Window area, two disjunct populations on the Eastern Escarpment in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa (Jacobsen et al. 2014).


Population trend

Trend

The population is inferred to be stable and not fragmented

Threats

Although this species has a relatively small range and is restricted to rocky outcrops, there are currently no known threats. Most of the range falls in a protected area (Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve). Outside this protected area, the landscape is heavily transformed.

Uses and trade

No trade is known.

Conservation

The habitat in its small range should be monitored for future habitat losses.

References 

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 address = {www.iucnredlist.org},
 author = {IUCN},
 title = {The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2018-2},
 year = {2018}
}
,@book{19520513,
 address = {Pretoria, South Africa.},
 author = {Mucina, L. and Rutherford, M.C.},
 publisher = {Strelitzia 19. South African National Biodiversity Institute},
 title = {The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland},
 year = {2006}
}
,@article{196887,
 author = {Jacobsen, N.H.G., Kuhn, A.L., Jackman, T.R. and Bauer. A.M.},
 journal = {Zootaxa},
 number = {4},
 pages = {451--501. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.4.1},
 title = {A phylogenetic analysis of the southern African gecko genus <i>Afroedura</i> Loveridge (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with the description of nine new species from Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa},
 volume = {3846},
 year = {2014}
}
,@article{196897,
 author = {Jacobsen, N.H.G.},
 journal = {Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa},
 pages = {22--25},
 title = {Flat geckos (genus <i>Afroedura</i>) in the Transvaal},
 volume = {40},
 year = {1992}
}
,]
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