Pedioplanis
Pedioplanis is a genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae. All species of Pedioplanis are endemic to southern Africa.[2][3]
| Pedioplanis | |
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| Pedioplanis namaquensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Subfamily: | Lacertinae |
| Genus: | Pedioplanis Fitzinger, 1843[1] |
Species
There are 13 valid species in this genus:[3]
- Pedioplanis benguellensis (Bocage, 1867) – Angolan sand lizard, Bocage's sand lizard
- Pedioplanis breviceps (Sternfeld, 1911) – short-headed sand lizard, short-headed sandveld lizard, Sternfeld's sand lizard
- Pedioplanis burchelli (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Burchell's sand lizard
- Pedioplanis gaerdesi (Mertens, 1954) – Kaokoland sand lizard, Mayer's sand lizard
- Pedioplanis haackei Conradie, Measey, Branch & Tolley, 2012
- Pedioplanis huntleyi Conradie, Measey, Branch & Tolley, 2012
- Pedioplanis husabensis Berger-Dell'Mour & Mayer, 1989 – Husab sand lizard
- Pedioplanis inornata (Roux, 1907) – plain sand lizard, western sand lizard
- Pedioplanis laticeps (A. Smith, 1849) – Cape sand lizard, Karoo sand lizard
- Pedioplanis lineoocellata (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – common sand lizard, ocellated sand lizard, spotted sand lizard
- Pedioplanis namaquensis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Namaqua sand lizard
- Pedioplanis rubens (Mertens, 1954) – Ruben's sand lizard, Waterberg sand lizard
- Pedioplanis undata (A. Smith, 1838) - plain sand lizard, western sand lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pedioplanis.
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References
- "Pedioplanis ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Lacertidae.
- Conradie, Werner (2012). "Revised phylogeny of African sand lizards (Pedioplanis), with the description of two new species from south-western Angola". African Journal of Herpetology. 61 (2): 91–112. doi:10.1080/21564574.2012.676079.
- Pedioplanis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 11 July 2014.
Further reading
- Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Pedioplanis, p. 170). (11 species of Pedioplanis, pp. 170–174).
- Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Pedioplanis, new genus, p. 21). (in Latin).
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