Large-scale grass lizard

Large-scale grass lizard
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Cordylidae
Genus: Chamaesaura
Species:
C. macrolepis
Binomial name
Chamaesaura macrolepis
Cope, 1862[2]

The large-scale grass lizard (Chamaesaura macrolepis), also known as the large-scaled snake lizard, Zambian grass lizard, or Zambian snake lizard,[3] is a species of lizard in the genus Chamaesaura. It lives scattered across southern Africa with two subspecies.[2]

Distributation

The large-scale grass lizard lives in grasslands in South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2]

Subspecies

The large-scale grass lizard has two subspecies.

  • C. m. macrolepis - This subspecies was discovered by Cope in 1862.
  • C. m. miopropus - In 1894, George Albert Boulenger discovered a second subspecies.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Bates, M.F.; Tolley, K.A. (2018). "Chamaesaura macrolepis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T110159014A115673966. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T110159014A115673966.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Chamaesaura macrolepis COPE, 1862". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  3. ^ "Chamaesaura macrolepis". UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Retrieved 2008-01-06.


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