- Pungwe Flat Lizard
Taxobox
name = Pungwe Flat Lizard
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Reptilia
ordo =Squamata
familia =Cordylidae
genus = "Platysaurus "
species = P. pungweensis
binomial = "Platysaurus pungweensis"
binomial_authority = Broadley 1959The Pungwe Flat Lizard is a species oflizard in theCordylidae family.Description
Pungwe Flat Lizards females and juveniles are black with stripes on their back. Males vary by subspecies.
Pungwe Flat Lizards resemble the Common Flat Lizard, "Platysaurus intermedius".
Geography
Pungwe Flat lizards live in eastern
Zimbabwe andMozambique . [Cite web | url = http://www.tigr.org/reptiles/species.php?genus=Platysaurus&species=pungweensis | title = Platysaurus pungweenis | work = The Reptile Database | accessdate = 2007-09-01] They live in asavannah habitat.Habits
Pungwe Flat Lizards eat
ants andbeetles . They live on rock outcrops.ubspecies
Two
subspecies of the Pungwe Flat Lizard exist, "P. p. pungweensis" and "P. p. blakei".*P. p. pungweensis - Lives in the highlands of
Zimbabwe andMozambique .
*P. p. blakei - Lives on the Manica Platformee also
*
Platysaurus
*Cordylidae References
External links
* [http://www.tallbo.com/platysaurus/p_pungweensis.htm More Information]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.