Tropidosaura cottrelli (HEWITT, 1925)

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cottrell's Mountain Lizard
Synonym	Basutosaura cottrelli HEWITT 1925: 356 Tropidosaura cottrelli — FITZSIMONS 1943: 307 Tropidosaura cottrelli — BATES et al. 2014: 177
Distribution	South Africa, Lesotho (Drakensberg) Type locality: Nemahedi Camp, nr. Mont aux Sources, Basutoland
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: PEM R16093; (formerly AMG, fide FITZSIMONS 1943: 309)
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Comment	Sympatry: Eremias burchelli, Pseudocordylus microlepidotus and Trimerorhinus rhombeatus (fide Hewitt 1925).
Etymology	Named after John Awdry Cottrell (b. 1904), a South African naturalist and ornithologist who collected the holotype (1925).
References	Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp. Bates, Michael F. 2013. Geographic distribution: Tropidosaura cottrelli (Hewitt, 1925) Cottrell's Mountain Lizard. African Herp News (60): 26-28 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Branch, W.R 1985. Geographical Distribution - Tropidosaura cottrelli. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (31): 26-26 - get paper here Conradie, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045 - get paper here FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp. Hewitt, J. 1925. On some new species of Reptiles and Amphibians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3: 343-370 Kopij, G. 2026. Vertebrate Fauna of Lesotho: An Ecological Monograph. Cambridge Scholars Publishing - get paper here Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=43&Species=189 https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReptilesSouthernAfrica/permalink… Google images

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