Mitchell's flat lizard
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Mitchell's flat lizard (Platysaurus mitchelli)[2] is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to Southeast Africa.
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 Template:Cvt.[1]
Behavior
Platysaurus mitchelli shelters in cracks and crevices of rocks, emerging to forage.[1]
Reproduction
Platysaurus mitchelli is oviparous.[2]
References
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Platysaurus mitchelli ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Platysaurus mitchelli, p. 179).
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Adolphs, Klaus (2006). Bibliotheca Cordyliformium: Neues Quellenverzeichnis der Gürtelschweife und Schildechsen (Reptilia, Cordylidae und Gerrhosauridae). Sankt Augustin, Germany: Squamata Verlag für Herpetologie. ISBN 9783980508612. 303 pp. (in German)
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Broadley, D.G. (1978). "A revision of the genus Platysaurus A. Smith (Sauria: Cordylidae)". Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences. 6 (4): 129–185.
- Loveridge, A. (1953). "Zoological Results of a Fifth Expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 110 (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 Evolution 58 (1): 53–70.
External links
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