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Cape Girdled Lizard
Cordylus cordylus
Cordylus cordylus, the Cape girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa, where it inhabits crags, rocky outcrops and mountain summits. They evade predators by wedging themselves firmly in rock cracks.
From the article Cordylus cordylus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Cape girdled lizard has a golden-brown body with spiny, keeled body scales, especially on its tail.
Range & habitat
It is indigenous to the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa, from Saldanha and Cape Town eastwards as far as Lesotho.
Wikipedia: “Range”
What it does
In the autumn, the females give birth to one or two young, which stay very near the mother for the first year.
Wikipedia: “Reproduction”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 33027.