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Girdle-tail Lizards
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Girdle-tail Lizards

Cordylidae

Cordylidae is a family of small to medium-sized lizards that occur in southern and eastern Africa. They are commonly known as girdled lizards, spinytail lizards or girdle-tail lizards.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 68 known species

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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 33023.