Mitchell's flat lizard
| Mitchell's flat lizard | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Cordylidae |
| Genus: | Platysaurus |
| Species: | P. mitchelli
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| Binomial name | |
| Platysaurus mitchelli Loveridge, 1953
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Mitchell's flat lizard (Platysaurus mitchelli)[2] is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to Southeast Africa.
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The specific name, mitchelli, is in honor of naturalist Bernard Lindley Mitchell of the Department of Game, Fish, and Tsetse Control in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the 1940s.[3]
Geographic range
[edit | edit source]Platysaurus mitchelli is found in Malawi[1][2] and Mozambique.[1]
Habitat
[edit | edit source]The preferred natural habitat of Platysaurus mitchelli is rocky areas, in both forest and grassland, at elevations of 700–2,800 m (2,300–9,200 ft).[1]
Behavior
[edit | edit source]Platysaurus mitchelli shelters in cracks and crevices of rocks, emerging to forage.[1]
Reproduction
[edit | edit source]Platysaurus mitchelli is oviparous.[2]
References
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- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (Platysaurus mitchelli, p. 179).
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 303 pp. (in German)
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- Loveridge, A. (1953). "Zoological Results of a Fifth Expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 110 (3): 142–322. (Platysaurus mitchelli, new species, pp. 234–237).
- Stanley, Edward L.; Bauer, Aaron M.; Jackman, Todd R.; Branch, William R.; Mouton, P. Le Fras N. (2011). "Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58 (1): 53–70.
External links
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