Cordylus
Cordylus | |
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Cordylus tropidosternum , tropical girdled lizard | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Cordylidae |
Genus: | Cordylus Laurenti, 1768 |
The
Cordylids are generally listed under CITES Appendix II. They are not necessarily threatened with extinction, but trade is controlled to prevent overexploitation. Some species of Cordylus have limited ranges and may be threatened with habitat destruction or over collecting for the pet trade.
Classification
Broadley (2006) recognized 47 species in the genus Cordylus, including eight species originally placed in the genus Pseudocordylus (P. fasciatus, P. langi, P. melanotus, P. microlepidotus, P. nebulosus, P. spinosus, P. subviridis, and P. transvaalensis) and Hemicordylus capensis. The greatest diversity of cordylids is in South Africa, with a few species found in Angola and eastern Africa as far north as Ethiopia. Other members of the Cordylidae are the genera Chamaesaura (a group of legless lizards from southern and eastern Africa) and Platysaurus. The sister group of Cordylidae is the plated lizards, family Gerrhosauridae.
In 2011, a study based on the molecular
Genus Cordylus (
- Angolan girdled lizard, Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895)
- Maasai girdled lizard, Cordylus beraduccii Broadley & Branch, 2002
- Cape girdled lizard, Cordylus cordylus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Rooiberg girdled lizard, Cordylus imkeaeMouton & Van Wyk, 1994
- Limpopo girdled lizard, Cordylus jonesii (Boulenger, 1891)
- Machadoe's girdled lizard, Laurent, 1964
- Coastal spiny-tailed lizard, Cordylus macropholis (Boulenger, 1910)
- Marungu girdled lizard, Cordylus marunguensis Greenbaum et al., 2012
- McLachlan's girdled lizard, Cordylus mclachlaniMouton, 1986
- Mecula girdled lizard, Cordylus meculae Branch, Rödel & Marais, 2005
- Dwarf girdled lizard, Cordylus minor V. FitzSimons, 1943
- Kaokoveld girdled lizard, Cordylus namakuiyus Stanley, Ceríaco, Bandeira, Valerio, Bates & Branch, 2016
- Black girdled lizard, Cordylus niger Cuvier, 1829
- Nyika girdled lizard, Cordylus nyikae Broadley & Mouton, 2000
- Oelofsen's girdled lizard, Cordylus oelofseni Mouton & Van Wyk, 1990
- N’Dolondolo girdled lizard, Cordylus phonolithos Marques, Ceríaco, Stanley, Bandeira, Agarwal & Bauer, 2019
- Rhodesian girdled lizard, Cordylus rhodesianus (Hewitt, 1933)
- Ethiopian girdled lizard, Cordylus rivae (Boulenger, 1896)
- East African spiny-tailed lizard, Cordylus tropidosternum (Cope, 1869)
- Ukinga girdled lizard, Cordylus ukingensis (Loveridge, 1932)
- Transvaal girdled lizard, Cordylus vittifer (Reichenow, 1887)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Cordylus.
Formerly assigned in Cordylus (
- species in the genus Hemicordylus
- species in the genus Karusasaurus
- species in the genus Namazonurus
- Blue-spotted girdled lizard, Ninurta coeruleopunctatus
- Armadillo girdled lizard, Ouroborus cataphractus
- species in the genus Pseudocordylus
- species in the genus Smaug
References
- PMID 20816817.
- ^ Uetz, Peter et al. (2014). Genus Cordylus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Cordylus, pp. 185–186).
- Broadley DG (2006). "CITES Standard Reference for the Species of Cordylus (Cordylidae, Reptilia), compiled by Donald G. Broadley, at the request of the Cites Nomenclature Committee, Update 2006" (PDF). Self-published. 10 pp. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
- FitzSimons VF (1943). The Lizards of South Africa. Pretoria: Transvaal Museum Memoir.
- Laurenti JN (1768). Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum. Vienna: "Joan. Thom. Nob. de Trattnern". 214 pp. + Plates I–V. (Cordylus, new genus, p. 51). (in Latin).
- Reissig, Jens (2014). Girdled Lizards and their relatives: Natural History, Captive Care and Breeding. (Foreword by ISBN 978-3899734379.
- Spawls S, Howell K, Drewes R, Ashe J (2002). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa. San Diego: Academic Press. 543 pp.