P. phillipsi is a small lizard with a very long tail. A male specimen with a total length of 156 mm (6.1 in) has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 42 mm (1.7 in) and a tail 114 mm (4.5 in) long.[2][3]
^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.
ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. (Philochortus phillipsii, p. 206).
Further reading
Boulenger GA (1898). "On a Second Collection of Reptiles made by Mr. E. Lort-Phillips in Somaliland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Seventh Series2: 130–133. (Latastia phillipsii, new species, pp. 131–132).
Boulenger (1917). "On the Lizards of the Genus PhilochortusMatschie". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London1917: 145-157 + Plates I-II. (Philochortus phillipsii, new combination, pp. 148-150 + Plate I, figures 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4).
Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia14: 407–465.
Largen, Malcolm; Spawls, Stephen (2010). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp.
ISBN978-3899734669. (Philochortus phillipsi, p. 360).
Parker HW (1942). "The Lizards of British Somaliland (With an appendix on Topography and Climate by Capt. R. H. R. Taylor, O. B. E.)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College91 (1): 1–101. (Philochortus phillipsi, p. 76).