Zonosaurus

Zonosaurus
Ornate plated lizards (Z. ornatus), female and male Isalo National Park
Tsingy plated lizard (Z. tsingy), Ankarana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gerrhosauridae
Subfamily:	Zonosaurinae
Genus:	Zonosaurus Boulenger, 1887[1]

Z. ornatus mating ritual

Zonosaurus is a genus of gerrhosaurid lizards.[1]

Geographic range

Species in the genus Zonosaurus are found in Madagascar and Seychelles.[2]

Species

The following 17 species are considered valid.[2]

• Zonosaurus aeneus (Grandidier, 1872)
• Zonosaurus anelanelany Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000
• Zonosaurus bemaraha Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000
• Zonosaurus boettgeri Steindachner, 1891
• Zonosaurus brygooi Lang & Böhme, 1990
• Zonosaurus haraldmeieri Brygoo & Böhme, 1985 – green zonosaur
• Zonosaurus karsteni (Grandidier, 1869) – Karsten's zonosaur
• Zonosaurus laticaudatus (Grandidier, 1869) – wide-tailed zonosaur
• Zonosaurus madagascariensis (Gray, 1831) – Madagascar zonosaur
• Zonosaurus maramaintso Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2006
• Zonosaurus maximus Boulenger, 1896 – giant zonosaur
• Zonosaurus ornatus (Gray, 1831) – jewelled zonosaur, or ornate plated lizard
• Zonosaurus quadrilineatus (Grandidier, 1867) – four-lined zonosaur
• Zonosaurus rufipes (Boettger, 1881) – red-footed zonosaur
• Zonosaurus subunicolor (Boettger, 1881)
• Zonosaurus trilineatus Angel, 1939 – three-lined zonosaur
• Zonosaurus tsingy Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000 – tsingy plated lizard

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Zonosaurus.

References

1. "Zonosaurus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gerrhosauridae.
2. "Zonosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ, ... xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Zonosaurus, new genus, p. 127).
• Raselimanana AP, Raxworthy CJ, Nussbaum RA (2000). "A revision of the dwarf Zonosaurus Boulenger (Reptilia: Squamata: Cordylidae) from Madagascar, including descriptions of three new species". Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas 18: 1-16.