Reproductive data for the Cape long‐tailed seps Tetradactylus tetradactylus (Sauria: Gerrhosauridae) in South Africa: Eggs, incubation and hatchlings.

I tetradactylus i lays 2-4 eggs in summer is unknown, but it is possible that the '4' was in reference to the fact that a specimen examined by him (Branch, 1990) contained two oviductal eggs as well as an enlarged follicle in each ovary. The genus I Tetradactylus i Merrem consists of eight species of serpentiform lizards, six of which are restricted to southern Africa (Bates et al., 2014; Branch, 1998) with two species in central and eastern Africa (Spawls et al., 2018). I seps i without oviductal eggs had one distinctly enlarged follicle in each ovary, again indicating a clutch of two eggs (M.F. Bates, unpubl. data). [Extracted from the article]