Tropidosaura essexi   HEWITT, 1927

Tropidosaura essexi   HEWITT, 1927


          
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  • Alexander, G. & Marais, J. (2007) -  A Guide to the Reptiles of Southern Africa -  Struik publishers, Cape Town.  

  • Arnold, E.N. (1986) -  The hemipenis of lacertid lizards (Reptilia:Lacertidae): structure, variation and systematic implications. -  Journal of Natural History, London, 20: 1221-1257.  

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  • Bates, M.F. (1992) -  The Herpetofauna of the Orange Free State: with special emphesis on Biogeographical patterning. -  MSc Thesis, University of Natal, Bloemfontein.     

  • Bates, M.F. & Branch, W.R. & Bauer, A.M. & Burger, M. & Marais, J. & Alexander, G.J. & Villiers, M.S. de (eds.) (2014) -  Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. -  Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Pretoria. 485 pp.  

  • Bates, M.F. & Cunningham, M.J. & Turner, A.A. (2014) -  Tropidosaura essexi Hewitt, 1927 Essex’s Mountain Lizard. -  In: Bates, F.M., Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M., Burger, M., Marais, J., Alexander, G.J. & M.S. de Villiers (Eds): Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. - Sanbi, Pretoria. p. 178.  

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  • Branch, W.R. (2006) -  Priorities for systematic studies on southern African reptiles. -  In: Branch, W.R., Tolley, K.A., Cunningham, M., Bauer, A.M., Alexander, G., Harrison, J.A., Turner, A.A. & Bates, M.F. (eds) 2006. A plan for phylogenetic studies of southern African reptiles: proceedings of a workshop held at Kirstenbosch, February 2006. Biodiversity Series 5. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.  

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  • Broadley, D.G. (1962) -  The herpetofauna of the Cathedral peak area of the Natal Drakensberg. -  The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Rhodesia, Umtali, Zimbabwe, 19: 20-22.  

  • Engleder, A. & Haring, E. & Kirchhof, S. & Mayer, W. (2013) -  Multiple nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences provide new insights into the phylogeny of South African Lacertids (Lacertidae, Eremiadinae). -  Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Berlin, 51 (2): 132-143.    

  • FitzSimons, V.F. (1943) -  The Lizards of South Africa. -  Transvaal Museum Memoir, Pretoria, South Africa, Memoir No. 1, 528 pp.   

  • FitzSimons, V.F.M. (1947) -  Descriptions of new species and subspecies of reptiles and amphibians from Natal, together with notes on some other little known species. -  Annals of the Natal Museum, 11 (1): 111-137.  

  • Hewitt, J. (1927) -  Further descriptions of reptiles and batrachians from South Africa. -  Records of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 3 (5): 371-415.  

  • Hipsley, C. (2012) -  Evolutionary consequences of Cenozoic climate change on African lacertid lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae). -  Ph.D. dissertation, University of California. 126 pp.    

  • Lewin, A. & Feldman, A. & Bauer, A.M. & Belmaker, J. & Broadley, D.G. & Chirio, L. & Itescu, Y. & LeBreton, M. & Maza, E. & Meirte, D. & Nagy, Z.T. & Novosolov, M. & Roll, U. & Tallowin, O. & Trape, J.-F. & Vidan, E. & Meiri, S. (2016) -  Patterns of species richness, endemism and environmental gradients of African reptiles. -  Journal of Biogeography, 43 (12): 2380-2390.    

  • Meiri, S. (2008) -  Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes. -  Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17 (6): 724-734.    

  • Mouton, P. le F.N. & Wyk, J.H. van (1993) -  Reptile fauna of the Katse Dam catchment area and a biogeographical assessment of species composition in the Lesotho Highlands.  -  Koedoe 36 (1): 67-78.   

  • Nicolau, G.K. & Jackson, E.A. & Jordaan, A. & Alexander, G.J. (2022) -  Tropidosaura essexi Hewitt, 1927 (Reptilia: Lacertidae) is live bearing: the only viviparous African lacertid. -  African Journal of Herpetology, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2021.2019839   

  • Pérez i de Lanuza, G. & Font, E. (2016) -  The evolution of colour pattern complexity: selection for conspicuousness favours contrasting within-body colour combinations in lizards -  Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29 (5): 942-951.