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- ↑ "Lampropholis couperi ". Reptile Database . Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- 1 2 "Patrick Couper biography". The Queensland Museum. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- 1 2 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Couper, P., p. 60).
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