Statistical synopsis of the genus Cordylus from "The revision of the African lizards of the family Cordylidae", by Arthur Loveridge, November 1944 and explanation of the different scales on the pictures below.


Cordylus tropidosternum :

Rostral breadth into height

2 - 2½

Supraoculars

4

Supraciliaries

3 - 4

Suboculars

2

Upper labials

5 - 6

Lower labials

5 - 6

Gulars between the posterial angels of jaws

22 - 26

Longitudinal rows of dorsals plus laterals

18 - 22

Transverse rows of dorsals

24 - 26

Longitudina rows of ventrals

12 - 14

Transverse rows of ventrals

28 - 30

Femoral pores

5 - 8

 

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