In 1916
Andersson described this lizard as a new species, naming it Gerrhosaurus skoogi. In 1953
FitzSimons assigned the species to a new genus Angolosaurus. Recent studies[3] suggest that this
monotypicgenus is synonymous to Gerrhosaurus and makes it
paraphyletic; therefore A. skoogi was reclassified as Gerrhosaurus skoogi.
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ab[1] Lamb T, Meeker AM,
Bauer AM,
Branch WR (2003). "On the systematic status of the desert plated lizard (Angolosaurus skoogi ): phylogenetic inference from DNA sequence analysis of the African Gerrhosauridae". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society78 (2): 253-261.
^Nagy KA, Clarke BC, Seely MK, Mitchell D, Lighton JRB (1991). "Water and Energy Balance in Namibian Desert Sand-Dune Lizards Angolosaurus skoogi ". Functional Ecology5 (6): 731-739.
^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.
ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. (Gerrhosaurus skoogi, p. 245).
Further reading
Andersson LG (1916). "Notes on the reptiles and batrachians in the Zoological museum at Gothenburg with an account of some new species". Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitter-Hets Samhalles Handlingar, Series B, 4, 17 (5): 1-41. (Gerrhosaurus skoogi, new species).
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.
ISBN0-88359-042-5. (Angolosaurus skoogi, p. 177 + Plate 64).