Mitchell's flat lizard

Mitchell's flat lizard
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scinciformata
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
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. "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 College110 (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 Evolution58 (1): 53–70.

External links

• Taxonomy and range of Platysaurus mitchelli at ZipcodeZoo.com