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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Giant girdled lizard
    dragon lizard, ouvolk, or giant zonure, is the largest species of the Cordylidae, a family of lizards from sub-Saharan Africa. This threatened species...
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    Armadillo girdled lizard (category Cordylidae)
    and the golden-armadillo lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is endemic to desert areas along the western coast of South...
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    Smaug is a genus of lizards in the family Cordylidae. The genus Smaug is a group of species of spiny southern African lizards, separated from the genus...
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    species such as slow worms, glass snakes/lizards and the scheltopusik. Cordylidae – an African family of 66 species, with one virtually legless genus Chamaesaura...
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    The genus Cordylus (Sauria: Cordylidae) includes a wide variety of species of small to medium spiny lizards from Africa, collectively called girdle-tailed...
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    (Scincidae) and their close relatives. These include the living families Cordylidae (girdled lizards), Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards), and Xantusiidae (night...
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  • Romfilatelia.ro. "Chamaeleo Trioceros melleri profile". Adcham.com. "Cordylidae". Britannica.com. "Smaug giganteus". reptile-database.reptarium.cz. "Giant...
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  • Thumbnail for List of reptiles
    Pygopodidae – legless lizards Family Dibamidae – blind lizards Family Cordylidae – spinytail lizards Family Gerrhosauridae – plated lizards Family Gymnophthalmidae...
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  • Thumbnail for Platysaurus
    lizards, commonly known as flat lizards for their flat backs, in the family Cordylidae. All species in the genus Platysaurus live in isolated populations in...
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    †Paramacellodidae Family †Slavoiidae Family Scincidae (skinks) Family Cordylidae (spinytail lizards) Family Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards) Family Xantusiidae...
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  • Thumbnail for Smaug breyeri
    or the Waterberg girdled lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is endemic to South Africa. The specific name, breyeri, is...
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  • Thumbnail for Broadley's flat lizard
    lizard and Broadley's flat lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is endemic to South Africa. Both the specific name, broadleyi...
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    polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58 (1): 53–70. (Ouroborus cataphractus...
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    Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systemaik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Cordylidae. "Pseudocordylus". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Boulenger...
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  • Thumbnail for Pseudocordylus melanotus
    (April 2007). An analysis of the Pseudocordylus melanotus complex (Sauria: Cordylidae) (Doctoral dissertation). Stellenbosch University. hdl:10019.1/21451....
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  • Thumbnail for Common flat lizard
    common flat lizard (Platysaurus intermedius) is a species of lizard in the Cordylidae family. This lizard has 9 subspecies, all living in southern Africa. The...
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  • Karoo girdled lizard (Cordylus aridus), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae Giant girdled lizard (Cordylus giganteus), the sungazer, giant spiny-tailed...
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    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Cordylidae Genus: Cordylus Species: C. niger Binomial name Cordylus niger Smith,...
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    Gerrhosauridae Cordylidae...
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  • Thumbnail for Femoral pore
    animal's thigh. Femoral pores are present in all genera in the families Cordylidae, Crotaphytidae, Hoplocercidae, Iguanidae, Phrynosomatidae, and Xantusiidae...
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    galliwasps, glass lizards Anniellidae Nopcsa 1928 – legless lizards Cordylidae Mertens, 1937 – girdle-tailed lizards Gerrhosauridae Fitzinger, 1843 -...
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    twig snake, syn. Thelotornis capensis capensis Boycott, 1992 Family Cordylidae Genus Chamaesaura: Chamaesaura aenae (Fitzsimons, 1843), Transvaal snake...
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  • Thumbnail for Warren's girdled lizard
    warreni) is a species of relatively large, flattened lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to Southern Africa. The specific name, warreni...
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    classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Cordylidae Genus: Chamaesaura Schneider, 1801...
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  • polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (1). Academic Press: 53–70...
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  • girdled lizard (Namazonurus lawrenci) is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is endemic to South Africa. The specific name, lawrenci,...
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    Paroedura, Pristurus, Quedenfeldtia, Rhoptropus, Tropiocolotes, Uroplatus), Cordylidae, as well as Lacertidae (Nucras, Lacerta, Mesalina, Acanthodactylus, Pedioplanis)...
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  • Thumbnail for Limpopo girdled lizard
    lizard and Jones's girdled lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is indigenous to Southern Africa. The specific name, jonesii...
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  • Thumbnail for Soutpansberg flat lizard
    Soutpansberg flat lizard (Platysaurus relictus) is a species of lizard in the Cordylidae family. The females and juveniles of this Platysaurus are brown on their...
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