Pedioplanis

Pedioplanis is a genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae. All species of Pedioplanis are endemic to southern Africa.[2][3]

Pedioplanis
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.

References

1. "Pedioplanis ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Lacertidae.
2. 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.
3. 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).