#cordylus

[herpsandbirds]

Black Girdled Lizard (Cordylus niger), family Cordylidae, found in two isolated populations in South Africa

photographs: Karsten Kamke & Prosthetic Head

[master-gatherer]

I did some color corrections on my gal so you can actually see her face.

[jaubaius]

The armadillo girdled lizard also commonly known as the armadillo lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae.

[typhlonectes]

Cordylus namakuiyus • A Review of Cordylus machadoi (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southwestern Angola, with the Description of A New Species from the Pro-Namib Desert [2016]

The girdled lizard genus Cordylus is represented in Angola by two species, Cordylus angolensis and C. machadoi, separated from their nearest congeners by over 700 km.

Here we describe a new species, Cordylus namakuiyus sp. nov., endemic to the arid lowlands west of the southern Angolan escarpment.

Phylogenetic analysis using three mitochondrial and eight nuclear genes shows that the low-elevation forms and the proximate, high-elevation species C. machadoi are genetically divergent and reciprocally monophyletic, and together form the earliest diverging lineage of the northern Cordylus clade...

(Read more: NovaTaxa - Species New to Science)

Reference:

Stanley, Edward L., Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Suzana Bandeira, Hilaria Valerio, Michael F. Bates and William R. Branch. 2016. Zootaxa. 4061(3): 201–226.  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.1

[herpsandbirds]

Nyika Girdled Lizard (Cordylus nyikae), family Cordylidae, found in the highlands of northern Malawi

photograph by Tim Brammer

[herpsandbirds]

Oelofsen’s Girdled Lizard (Cordylus oelofseni), family Cordylidae, endemic to South Africa

photograph by Alouise Lynch

[master-gatherer]

Guess who figured out the PS5 app~🎶

[herpsandbirds]

Oelofsen’s Girdled Lizard (Cordylus oelofseni), family Cordylidae, Dasklip Pass, South Africa

photograph by Tyrone Ping