Ninurta coeruleopunctatus

Ninurta coeruleopunctatus (syn. Cordylus coeruleopunctatus), the blue-spotted girdled lizard or simply blue-spotted lizard, is a lizard species endemic to southern, coastal South Africa.[1][2]

Ninurta coeruleopunctatus
At Nature's Valley, South Africa
Blaauwkrantz Pass, Southern Cape, South Africa

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Cordylidae
Genus: Ninurta
Stanley, Bauer, Jackman, Branch, & Mouton, 2011
Species:
N. coeruleopunctatus
Binomial name
Ninurta coeruleopunctatus
(Methuen & Hewitt, 1913)
Synonyms[2]

Zonurus coeruleopunctatus Hewitt and Methuen, 1913
Cordylus coeruleopunctatus (Hewitt and Methuen, 1913)

References

  1. Bates, M.F. & Mouton, P.L.F.N. (2018). "Ninurta coeruleopunctatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T110163048A115676289. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T110163048A115676289.en.
  2. Ninurta coeruleopunctatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 19 December 2018.
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