Biology:Large-scale grass lizard

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Short description: Species of lizard

Large-scale grass lizard
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Cordylidae
Genus: Chamaesaura
Species:
C. macrolepis
Binomial name
Chamaesaura macrolepis
Cope, 1862[2]

The large-scale grass lizard (Chamaesaura macrolepis), also known as the large-scaled snake lizard, Zambian grass lizard, or Zambian snake lizard,[3] is a species of lizard in the genus Chamaesaura. It lives scattered across southern Africa with two subspecies.[2]

Distributation

The large-scale grass lizard lives in grasslands in South Africa , Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2]

Subspecies

The large-scale grass lizard has two subspecies.

  • C. m. macrolepis - This subspecies was discovered by Cope in 1862.
  • C. m. miopropus - In 1894, George Albert Boulenger discovered a second subspecies.

Footnotes

Wikidata ☰ Q2705730 entry