Broadleysaurus major

Familia: Gerrhosauridae
Subfamilia: Gerrhosaurinae
Genus: Broadleysaurus
Species:
Subspecies (4): B. m. bottegoi – B. m. grandis – B. m. major – B. m. zechi

• Broadleysaurus major (Duméril, 1851)

Syntypes (2): MNHN-RA-0.2809 and MNHN-RA-0.6539, collected by M. Louis Rousseau.

Type locality: “Ile Zanzibar (Côte de Zanguebar, Afr. occidentale)”.

• Gerrhosaurus major Duméril, 1851: 139 [original combination]
• Broadleysaurus major Bates & Tolley in Bates et al., 2013: 475 [subsequent combination]

• Duméril, A.M.C. & Duméril, A.H.A. 1851. Catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptiles du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Gide et Baudry/Roret: Paris. iv + 224 pp. Reference page. 
• Bates, M.F., Tolley, K.A., Edwards, S., Davids, Z., Silva, J.M. & Branch, W.R. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera. Zootaxa 3750(5): 465–493. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3750.5.3 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Broadleysaurus major. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 29 July 2018.

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