Tropidosaura gularis HEWITT, 1927

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cape Mountain Lizard, Yellow-striped Mountain Lizard
Synonym	Tropidosaura gularis HEWITT 1927: 387 Tropidosaura gularis — FITZSIMONS 1943: 304 Tropidosaura gularis — BRANCH & HANEKOM 1987 Tropidosaura gularis — BATES et al. 2014: 179
Distribution	South Africa (southern Cape province, between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth) Type locality: Table Mountain, Cape Province.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SAM
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Comment
Etymology	Apparently named after its well-marked gular fold across the throat, from Latin gula = throat.
References	Anonymous 1958. A List of Zoological and Botanical Types preserved in collections in Southern and East Africa. Volume I - Zoology, Part 1. South African Museums' Association, Pretoria, i-vi, 1-147. - get paper here Arnold E N 1986. The hemipenes of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae): structure, variation, and systematic implications. Journal of Natural History 20: 1221-1257 - get paper here 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. Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S. Branch, William R. & Hanekom, N. 1989. The herpetofauna of the Tsitsikamma Coastal and Forest National Parks. Koedoe (Pretoria), 30 (1987): 49-60. - get paper here Cunningham, Michael, Catherine Lys Henderson and Krystal A. Tolley 2003. Herpetological Surveys. Cockscomb (T'Numqa) Mountain. African Herp News (36):22-25 - get paper here FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp. Hewitt, J. 1927. Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. (Grahamstown) 3 (5): 371-415 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://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tropidosaura_gularis03.jpg?uselang… http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/lacertidae… http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=43&Species=191 Google images

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