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    Species Accepted

    Pseudocordylus melanotus (Smith, 1838)

    Common Crag Lizard

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      8 results
      Common Crag Lizard English
      Drakensberg Crag Lizard English
      Drakensberg-Gürtelschweif [subviridis] German
      Highfeld-Scheingürtelschweif German
      Highveld Crag Lizard English
      Schwarzrücken-Gürtelschweif German
      nibyszyszkowiec czarny Polish
      pakruhochvost tmavohřbetý Czech

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      29 results
      Riley, J. L., Baxter‐Gilbert, J. H., & Whiting, M. J. (2021). Social and spatial patterns of two Afromontane crag lizards (Pseudocordylus spp.) in the Maloti‐Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa. Austral Ecology.
      McConnachie, & Suzanne. (2014). The effects of temperature on oxygen consumption in the lizard Pseudocordylus melanotus from Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve. African Journal of Herpetology 63: 57-69.
      Stander, R. I. (2023). The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 Pp.
      Langerwerf, B. (1996). Notes on the Natural History, Husbandry, and Breeding of Drakensberg Crag Lizards (Pseudocordylus melanotus subviridis). In: Strimple, P. D. (Hrsg): Advances in Herpetoculture. Spec. Publ. Intern. Herp. Symp., No. 1: 75-79.
      Smith, A. (1838). Contributions to South African zoology. Art. VI. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 2: 30-33.
      Boycott, R. C. (1992). An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Swaziland. The Conservation Trust of Swaziland.
      Mouton, P. le Fras N. & Wyk, Johannes H. van. (1993). Sexual dimorphism in cordylid lizards: a case study of the Drakensberg crag lizard, Pseudocordylus melanotus. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 71 (9): 1715-1723.
      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.
      VISSER, J. (1984). Tierboskat-geitjes kies klipperige woonplek. Akkedisse van Suider-Afrika 7. Landbouweek- Blad, 27 April 1984:48–49, 51, 53.
      Broadley, D. G. (1964). A review of the crag lizards (Genus Pseudocordylus) of Natal. Annals of the Natal Museum 16: 99-110.

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