- Large-scale Grass Lizard
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Large-scale Grass Lizard Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Cordylidae Genus: Chamaesaura Species: C. macrolepis Binomial name Chamaesaura macrolepis
Cope, 1862[1]The Large-scale Grass Lizard (Chamaesaura macrolepis), also known as the Large-scaled Snake Lizard, Zambian Grass Lizard, or Zambian Snake Lizard,[2] is a species of lizard in the genus Chamaesaura. It lives scattered across southern Africa with two subspecies.[1]
Distributation
The Large-scale Grass Lizard lives in grasslands in South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]
Subspecies
The Large-scale Grass Lizard has two subspecies.
- C. m. macrolepis - This subspecies was discovered by Cope in 1862.
- C. m. miopropus - In 1894, George Albert Boulenger discovered a second subspecies.
Footnotes
- ^ a b c "Chamaesaura macrolepis COPE, 1862". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Chamaesaura&species=macrolepis. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
- ^ "Chamaesaura macrolepis". UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. http://www.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm?source=animals&genus=Chamaesaura&species=macrolepis. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
Extant Cordylidae species Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Reptilia · Order: Squamata Chamaesaura Cape Grass Lizard (C. anguina) · Large-scale Grass Lizard (C. macrolepis) · Transvaal Grass Lizard (C. aenea)Cordylus PlatysaurusBroadley's Flat Lizard (P. broadleyi) · Cape Flat Lizard (P. capensis) · Common Flat Lizard (P. intermedius) · Dwarf Flat Lizard (P. guttatus) · Emperor Flat Lizard (P. imperator) · Lebombo Flat Lizard (P. lebomboensis) · Mitchell's Flat Lizard (P. mitchchelli) · Ocellated Flat Lizard (P. ocellatus) · Orange throated Flat Lizard (P. monotropis) · Pungwe Flat Lizard (P. pungweensis) · Sekukhune Flat Lizard (P. orientalis) · Soutpansberg Flat Lizard (P. relictus) · Spotted Flat Lizard (P. maculatus) · Striped Flat Lizard (P. torquatus) · Waterberg Flat Lizard (P. minor)Pseudocordylus This lizard article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
