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Eastern Crag Lizards
Pseudocordylus
Pseudocordylus is a genus of small to large girdled lizards from South Africa, commonly known as crag lizards. Six species of Pseudocordylus are known; they are distinguished from girdled lizards of the genus Cordylus by the presence of granular scales on the back instead of osteoderms. However, recent molecular data places Pseudocordylus within Cordylus.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species
Common Crag Lizard
speciesPseudocordylus melanotus
Cape Crag Lizard
speciesPseudocordylus microlepidotus
Lang’s Crag Lizard
speciesPseudocordylus langi
Northern Crag Lizard
speciesPseudocordylus transvaalensis
Spiny Crag Lizard
speciesPseudocordylus spinosus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144050.