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 of lizard in the Cordylidae 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 and Mozambique. [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 a savannah habitat.

Habits

Pungwe Flat Lizards eat ants and beetles. 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 and Mozambique.
*P. p. blakei - Lives on the Manica Platform

ee also

*Platysaurus
*Cordylidae

References

External links

* [http://www.tallbo.com/platysaurus/p_pungweensis.htm More Information]