Gerrhosaurus bulsi Laurent, 1954

Bittencourt-Silva Keywords., Gabriela B., 2019, A herpetological survey of western Zambia, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 181) 13 (2), pp. 1-28 : 15

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scientific name	Gerrhosaurus bulsi Laurent, 1954
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Laurent’s Plated Lizard

Material. HILLWOOD FARM: BMNH 2018.2754. Comments: One juvenile collected by the farm scouts in dry miombo. The BLAST search shows the closest match (98%) as Gerrhosaurus bulsi from Angola ( KF 717381). Broadley (1971, 1991) referred the population of Gerrhosaurus from Ikelenge (north-western Zambia) to multilineatus but this was later contested by Haagner et al. (2000). Bates et al. (2013) consider G. bulsi a valid species and discuss the taxonomic problems regarding G. multilineatus .

References

Bates MF, Tolley KA, Edwards S, Davids Z, Da Silva JM, Branch WR. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera. Zootaxa 3750: 465 - 493.

Broadley DG. 1971. The Reptiles and Amphibians of Zambia. The Puku, Number 6. Kenya Litho, Nairobi, Kenya. 143 p.

Haagner GV, Branch WR, Haagner AJF. 2000. Notes on a collection of reptiles from Zambia and adjacent areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museum 1: 1 - 25.