Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia.
Arnold, E.N. Systematics and adaptive radiation of Equatorial African lizards assigned to the genera Adolfus, Bedriagaia, Gastropholis, Holaspis and Lacerta (Reptilia: Lacertidae).
Werner, F. Beschreibung neuer Reptilien aus den Gattungen Acanthosaura, Calotes, Gastropholis und Typhlops.
Non-taxonomists will be most interested in the field notes and photographs, which are particularly good on the lizards; most snakes were photographed dead, and there are only sparse field notes on amphibians.
There is a striking picture of the Congo green lizard Gastropholis echinata, a large slender lacertid with a unique ruff of long spiny scales on the tail.
Arnold, E. Systematics and adaptive radiation of equatorial African lizards assigned to the genera Adolfus, Bedriagaia, Gastropholis, Holaspis and Lacerta (Reptilia: Lacertidae).
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