Large-scale Grass Lizard

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Large-scale Grass Lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Cordylidae
Genus: Chamaesaura
Species: C. macrolepis
Binomial name
Chamaesaura macrolepis
[[Cope {surname)|Cope]], 1862[1]

The Large-scale Grass Lizard, also known as the Large-scaled Snake Lizard or the Zambian Grass Lizard or the Zambian Snake Lizard,[2] is a species of lizard in the genus Chamaesaura. It lives scattered across southern Africa.[1] It has two subspecies.[1]

[edit] Distributation

The Large-scale Grass Lizard lives in grasslands in South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

[edit] Subspecies

The Large-scale Grass Lizard has two subspecies.

  • C. m. macrolepis - This subspecies was discovered by Cope in 1862.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d Chamaesaura macrolepis COPE, 1862. The Reptile Database. Retrieved on 2008-01-06.
  2. ^ Chamaesaura macrolepis. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Retrieved on 2008-01-06.
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