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Cordylus niger, the black girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a second, isolated population near Langebaan. Black girdled lizards inhabit rocky outcrops on Table Mountain , South Africa .
Cordylidae is a family of small- to medium-sized lizards that occur in southern and eastern Africa. They are commonly known as girdled lizards, spinytail lizards, or girdle-tail lizards. [1] [2] Cordylidae is closely related to the family Gerrhosauridae, occurring in Africa and Madagascar. These two scientific families of lizards, known as ...
Kaokoveld girdled lizard, Cordylus namakuiyus Stanley, Ceríaco, Bandeira, Valerio, Bates & Branch, 2016; Black girdled lizard, Cordylus niger Cuvier, 1829; Cordylus niger, endemic to two small areas of South Africa. Nyika girdled lizard, Cordylus nyikae Broadley & Mouton, 2000; Oelofsen's girdled lizard, Cordylus oelofseni Mouton & Van Wyk, 1990
Cordylus cordylus, the Cape girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa, where it inhabits crags, rocky outcrops and mountain summits. They evade predators by wedging themselves firmly in rock cracks.
The sungazer (Smaug giganteus, syn. Cordylus giganteus), also known as the giant girdled lizard, giant dragon lizard, ouvolk, [2] or giant zonure, [3] is the largest species of the Cordylidae, a family of lizards from sub-Saharan Africa. [4] This threatened species is endemic to Highveld grasslands in the interior of South Africa. [4]
Mclachlan's girdled lizard (Cordylus mclachlani) is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae; Mozambique girdled lizard (Cordylus mossambicus), a large, flattened girdled lizard found in the Gorongosa Mountains in Mozambique; Rhodesian girdled lizard (Cordylus rhodesianus), exported from Mozambique for the pet trade; Transvaal girdled ...
The tropical girdled lizard is exported from Tanzania and Mozambique for the pet trade where it is commonly referred to as the “armadillo lizard” or “forest armadillo lizard or “Jones's armadillo lizard”. Tropical girdled lizards are not flattened like the true armadillo lizard (Ouroboros cataphractus) and do not grasp their tail and ...
The Lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No. 1. Pretoria: Transvaal Museum. xvi + 528 pp. (Cordylus peersi, new combination). Hewitt, J. (1932). "Some New Species and Subspecies of South African Batrachians and Lizards". Annals of the Natal Museum 7 (1): 105–128. (Zonurus peersi, new species, p. 116).