Platysaurus maculatus (Broadley, 1965)

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 170

Platysaurus maculatus (Broadley, 1965)

Material

Mt. M’pàluwé ( PEM R21220 , subadult female, 62.7 mm SVL; PEM R21221 , male, 79.5 mm SVL; PEM R21222 , female, 62.9 mm SVL; PEM R21223 , male, 81.7 mm SVL; PEM R21224 , male, 75.8 mm SVL) .

Comments

Collected from the lower slopes of Mt. M’pàluwé where they were found in abundance running on rocky slopes. Previously, collected from Mt. M’pàluwé [= Ribáuè] by Blake (1965), which formed part of the type series of this species ( Broadley 1965b). This species is now regarded as widespread in northern Mozambique ( Broadley 1965b, Branch et al. 2005) and southern Tanzania ( Broadley 1995).