Mitchell's flat lizard

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Mitchell's flat lizard
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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 lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to Southeast Africa.

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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

Platysaurus mitchelli is found in Malawi [1] [2] and Mozambique. [1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of Platysaurus mitchelli is rocky areas, in both forest and grassland, at elevations of 700–2,800 m (2,300–9,200 ft). [1]

Behavior

Platysaurus mitchelli shelters in cracks and crevices of rocks, emerging to forage. [1]

Reproduction

Platysaurus mitchelli is oviparous. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 3 "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).

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