Mitchell's flat lizard

Species of lizard

Mitchell's flat lizard
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Cordylidae
Genus: Platysaurus
Species:
P. mitchelli
Binomial name
Platysaurus mitchelli
Loveridge, 1953

Mitchell's flat lizard (Platysaurus mitchelli)[2] is a species of lizards in the family Cordylidae.

Etymology

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

P. mitchelli is found in Malawi.

Reproduction

P. mitchelli is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. ^ Verburgt, L.; Pietersen, D.; Chapeta, Y.; Farooq, H. (2020). "Platysaurus mitchelli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T110164740A110164755. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T110164740A110164755.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Platysaurus mitchelli ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Platysaurus mitchelli, p. 179).

Further reading

  • Loveridge A (1953). "Zoological Results of a Fifth Expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 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.
  • Taxonomy and range of Platysaurus mitchelli at ZipcodeZoo.com
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Extant Cordylidae species
Chamaesaura
  • Transvaal grass lizard (C. aenea)
  • Cape grass lizard (C. anguina)
  • Large-scale grass lizard (C. macrolepis)
  • Zambian grass lizard (C. miopropus)
  • Cape snake lizard (C. tenuior)
Cordylus
  • Angolan girdled lizard (C. angolensis)
  • Maasai girdled lizard (C. beraduccii)
  • Cape girdled lizard (C. cordylus)
  • Rooiberg girdled lizard (C. imkeae)
  • Limpopo girdled lizard (C. jonesii)
  • Machado's girdled lizard (C. machadoi)
  • Coastal spiny-tailed lizard (C. macropholis)
  • Marungu girdled lizard (C. marunguensis)
  • McLachlan's girdled lizard (C. mclachlani)
  • Mecula girdled lizard (C. meculae)
  • Western dwarf girdled lizard (C. minor)
  • Kaokoveld girdled lizard (C. namakuiyus)
  • Black girdled lizard (C. niger)
  • Nyika girdled lizard (C. nyikae)
  • Oelofsen's girdled lizard (C. oelofseni)
  • N’Dolondolo girdled lizard (C. phonolithos)
  • Rhodesian girdled lizard (C. rhodesianus)
  • Ethiopian girdled lizard (C. rivae)
  • East African spiny-tailed lizard (C. tropidosternum)
  • Ukinga girdled lizard (C. ukingensis)
  • Transvaal girdled lizard (C. vittifer)
Hemicordylus
  • Cape cliff lizard (H. capensis)
  • Dwarf cliff lizard (H. nebulosus)
Karusasaurus
  • Jordan's girdled lizard (K. jordani)
  • African spiny-tailed lizard (K. polyzonus)
Namazonurus
  • Campbell's girdled lizard (N. campbelli)
  • Lawrence's girdled lizard (N. lawrenci)
  • Namaqua girdled lizard (N. namaquensis)
  • Peers’s girdled lizard (N. peersi)
  • Herero girdled lizard (N. pustulatus)
Ninurta
  • Blue-spotted girdled lizard (N. coeruleopunctatus)
Ouroboros
  • Armadillo girdled lizard (O. cataphractus)
Platysaurus
  • Attenborough's flat lizard (P. attenboroughi)
  • Broadley's flat lizard (P. broadleyi)
  • Cape flat lizard (P. capensis)
  • Dwarf flat lizard (P. guttatus)
  • Emperor flat lizard (P. imperator)
  • Common flat lizard (P. intermedius)
  • Lebombo flat lizard (P. lebomboensis)
  • Spotted flat lizard (P. maculatus)
  • Waterberg flat lizard (P. minor)
  • Mitchell's flat lizard (P. mitchelli)
  • Orange-throated flat lizard (P. monotropis)
  • Ocellated flat lizard (P. ocellatus)
  • Sekukhune flat lizard (P. orientalis)
  • Pungwe flat lizard (P. pungweensis)
  • Soutpansberg flat lizard (P. relictus)
  • Striped flat lizard (P. torquatus)
Pseudocordylus
  • Lang's crag lizard (P. langi)
  • Highveld crag lizard (P. melanotus)
  • Cape crag lizard (P. microlepidotus)
  • Spiny crag lizard (P. spinosus)
  • Drakensberg crag lizard (P. subviridis)
  • Northern crag lizard (P. transvaalensis)
Smaug
  • Barberton girdled lizard (S. barbertonensis)
  • Waterberg girdled lizard (S. breyeri)
  • Zoutpansberg girdled lizard (S. depressus)
  • Giant girdled lizard (S. giganteus)
  • Mozambique girdled lizard (S. mossambicus)
  • Regal girdled lizard (S. regius)
  • Swazi dragon lizard (S. swazicus)
  • Van Dam's girdled lizard (S. vandami)
  • Warren's girdled lizard (S. warreni)
Taxon identifiers
Platysaurus mitchelli
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