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    Species Accepted

    Platysaurus broadleyi Branch & Whiting, 1997

    Augrabies Flat Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Platysaurus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Augrabies Flat Lizard English
      Augrabies-fladbælteøgle Danish
      Broadley's Flat Lizard English
      Broadley-Plattgürtelechse German
      Broadley’s Flat Lizard English
      Mmantsiane Tswana
      Mokgatitswane Tswana

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      28 results
      Greeff, J.M., & M.J. Whiting. (1999). Dispersal of Namaqua fig seeds by the lizard Platysaurus broadleyi (Sauria: Cordylidae). Journal of Herpetology 33:328-330.
      Greeff, J.M., & M.J. Whiting. (2000). Foraging-mode plasticity in the lizard Platysaurus broadleyi . Herpetologica 56: 402-407.
      CONRADIE, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON. (2019). Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045.
      Whiting, M. J. (2002). Field experiments on intersexual differences in predation risk and escape behaviour in the lizard Platysaurus broadleyi . Amphibia-Reptilia 23 (1): 119-124.
      Adolphs, K. (2006). Bibliotheca Cordyliformium. Squamata Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 303 Pp.
      Bukovsky, J. (2016). Welterstnachzucht von Platysaurus broadleyi. Reptilia (Münster) 21 (119): 13.
      Branch, W. R. & M. J. Whiting. (1997). A new Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 46 (2): 124-136.
      Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds). (2023). Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
      Whiting, M.J., & P.W. Bateman. (1999). Male preference for large females in the lizard Platysaurus broadleyi (Sauria: Cordylidae). Journal of Herpetology 33:309-312.
      Bates, Michael F. & William R. Branch. (2018). End of an era for African Herpetology—An obituary for a remarkable man: Donald George Broadley (29 May 1932 – 10 March 2016). African Journal of Herpetology, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2018.1437085.

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