Platysaurus Smith, 1844

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Smith, Andrew. 1844. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by “The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa.” Together with a summary of African zoology, and an inquiry into the geographical ranges of species in that quarter of the globe. Smith, Elder and Co., London.: Part 21: ; plates: Mammalia 44, Aves 96-98, Reptilia 39-42, Pisces 21-23.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Squamata

family

Cordylidae

genus

Platysaurus

Name

Synonyms

Lucysaurea Hoser, 2013

Homonyms

Platysaurus Smith, 1844

Platysaurus Agassiz, 1846

Common names

Flat lizards in English

Bibliographic References

1. CoL2006
2. Ill. Zool. S. Afr. (Rept.), App. p
3. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
4. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
5. SN2000/Uetz, 1995-
6. SN2000/Uetz, 1995-, PaleoDB
7. Stanley, Edward L., Aaron M. Bauer, Todd R. Jackman, William R. Branch, and P. Le Fras N. Mouton, 2011: Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 58, no. 1. 53-70.
8. as per family