. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 20 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM details of head scalation include: 13-14 scales around ear; usually 13 scales between anterior margin of ear and posterior margin of eye; 9-11 scales between nostril and anterior margin of eye; 2 scales between upper labials and eye; 21-24 scales (excluding circumorbitals) between eyes across crown of head; 6-7 upper labials; 6-8 lower labials; no enlarged chin shields; 2-3 scales bordering the mental; 2-3 granules bordering rostral between anterior supranasals.
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 20 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM details of head scalation include: 13-14 scales around ear; usually 13 scales between anterior margin of ear and posterior margin of eye; 9-11 scales between nostril and anterior margin of eye; 2 scales between upper labials and eye; 21-24 scales (excluding circumorbitals) between eyes across crown of head; 6-7 upper labials; 6-8 lower labials; no enlarged chin shields; 2-3 scales bordering the mental; 2-3 granules bordering rostral between anterior supranasals. The body is rather elongate; the back is covered with coarse, more-or-less keeled granules, intermixed with numerous enlarged, longitudinally oval, strongly keeled tubercles. These are scattered, although they may form stag- gered irregular rows on the upper flanks. There are 13-14 tubercles across the back (11-12 in SAM-8628, which are also less prominently keeled). The gulars are small, rounded and granular, whereas the belly scales are smooth, flat, cyc- loid, imbricate, and at least twice the size of the gulars. The scales beneath the proximal portion of the tail are almost twice the size of those on the belly, and 16-18 scales border the anterior margin of the cloaca. There are no preanal pores. A large, semicircular scale, almost twice the size of adjacent scales, pro- trudes on each side of the tail base, just distal to the cloaca, forming a cloacal spur. It is present in both sexes, but is larger and more protruding in the male lectotype and other sexually mature males. The latter also have a distinctly swollen tail base due to the presence of the Fig. 4. Underside of right pes of Phyllodactylus peringueyi showing details of scalation (based on PEM R6886; Kaia de Balaia, Kromme River, Humansdorp District, Eastern Cape).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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