Basutosaura cottrelli Hewitt, 1925

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 : 22-23

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scientific name	Basutosaura cottrelli Hewitt, 1925
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Basutosaura cottrelli Hewitt, 1925 View in CoL

Records of the Albany Museum, 3:356; Fig. p. 358.

Current name: Tropidosaura cottrelli ( Hewitt, 1925)

Holotype: PEM R16093; Nemahadi Police Camp near Mont aux Sources, Lesotho; Mr. J.A. Cottrell, January 1925.

Remarks. Type description refers to a single specimen as the ‘Type’, therefore PEM R16093 is regarded as the holotype. The specimen has a posterior ventral incision exposing the intestines and the posterior half of tail missing, but showing signs of regeneration.

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PEM	Port Elizabeth Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Sauria
Family	Lacertidae
Genus	Basutosaura

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