Angolan girdled lizard

Angolan girdled lizard
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scinciformata
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Cordylidae
Genus:	Cordylus
Species:	C. angolensis
Binomial name
Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895) [2]
Synonyms
Zonurus angolensis Bocage, 1895 Cordylus cordylus angolensis — Loveridge, 1944 Cordylus angolensis — Visser, 1971 [3]

The Angolan girdled lizard (Cordylus angolensis), also known as the Angolan spiny-tailed lizard, ^[2] is a species of lizard in the genus Cordylus . The species is endemic to Angola, as its names testify, ^{[3] [4] [5]} and is ovoviviparous. ^[3]

Reproduction

C. angolensis is ovoviviparous, ^[3] meaning females keep eggs inside their bodies until ready to hatch.

References

1. Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Baptista, N.; Conradie, W. (2020). "Cordylus angolensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T110159200A110159225. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T110159200A110159225.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. "Cordylus angolensis names". UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Archived from the original on 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
3. "Cordylus angolensis BOCAGE, 1895". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
4. "Cordylus angolensis distribution". UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Archived from the original on 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
5. "Cordylus angolensis". ZipcodeZoo.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-13. Retrieved 2008-01-13.

Further reading

• Bocage JVB. 1895. Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Lisbon: Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies. (Imprimerie nationale, printer). xx + 203 pp. + Plates I-XIX. (Zonurus angolensis, new species, pp. 24–25). (in French).