| Pedioplanis | |
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| Pedioplanis namaquensis | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Subfamily: | Lacertinae |
| Genus: |
Pedioplanis Fitzinger, 1843 [1] |
Pedioplanis is a genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae. All species of Pedioplanis are endemic to southern Africa. [2] [3]
Species
There are 16 valid species in this genus: [3]
- Pedioplanis benguelensis ( Bocage, 1867) – Angolan sand lizard, Bocage's sand lizard
- Pedioplanis branchi Childers, Kirchhof, & Bauer, 2021
- 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 mayeri Childers, Kirchhof, & Bauer, 2021
- Pedioplanis namaquensis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Namaqua sand lizard
- Pedioplanis rubens (Mertens, 1954) – Ruben's sand lizard, Waterberg sand lizard
- Pedioplanis serodioi Parrinha, Marques, Heinicke, Khalid, Parker, Tolley, Childers, Conradie, Bauer, & Ceriaco, 2021
- 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
- ^ "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. Bibcode: 2012AfJH...61...91C. doi: 10.1080/21564574.2012.676079. S2CID 49556402.
- ^ a b 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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