Pseudocordylus

Taxobox
name = Crag Lizard
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Cordylidae
genus = "Pseudocordylus"

The Crag Lizards ("Pseudocordylus") are small to large girdled lizards from South Africa. Six species of "Pseudocordylus" are known; they are distinguished from other "Cordylus" by the presence of granular scales on the back instead of osteoderms. Recent molecular data places "Pseudocordylus" within "Cordylus". [http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/pdfs/Frost_etal2001a.pdf]

Classification of the genus "Pseudocordylus"

Genus Pseudocordylus
*"Pseudocordylus capensis"
*Lang's Girdled Lizard, "Pseudocordylus langi", near threatened (LR/nt)
*"Pseudocordylus melanotus"
*"Pseudocordylus microlepidotus"
*"Pseudocordylus nebulosus", vulnerable (VU)
*Prickly Girdled Lizard, "Pseudocordylus spinosus", near threatened (LR/nt)

References

Branch, B., 1998. Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa: Ralph Curtis Books Publishing, Sanibel Island, Florida, 399 p.

Broadley, D. G., 2006: [http://www.cites.org/common/com/NC/tax_ref/Cordylus_CoP14_update.pdf]

Frost et al. 2001 [http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/pdfs/Frost_etal2001a.pdf]