Platysaurus broadleyi Branch & Whiting, 1997

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2019, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata), Zootaxa 4576 (1), pp. 1-45 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0246FD5D-0A11-4E2F-9060-C95B173DD4AE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932087

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D7C4D01-FFD6-FFBF-BE8D-F911FB82A1F6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Platysaurus broadleyi Branch & Whiting, 1997
status

 

Platysaurus broadleyi Branch & Whiting, 1997 View in CoL

African Journal of Herpetology, 46(2):126; Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 .

Paratypes (3): PEM R12466 (female allotype), R12467 & 12578; 400 m West of Augrabies Falls (18°35’34”S, 20°20’13”E, 2820CB; approx. 559 m a.s.l.), Northern Cape Province, South Africa; W. R. Branch, 22 June 1996 GoogleMaps .

Remarks: Female allotype (PEM R12466) with more than half of the tail missing. PEM R12467 with left leg stripped from skin to expose muscle. According to the original publication the holotype and other paratypes are in TMP (no.79828), while one additional non-type PEM specimen is listed (PEM R12257).

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Cordylidae

Genus

Platysaurus

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