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278:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
630:East African spiny-tailed lizard (
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558:Western dwarf girdled lizard (
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936:Orange-throated flat lizard (
798:Blue-spotted girdled lizard (
714:African spiny-tailed lizard (
522:Coastal spiny-tailed lizard (
209:. The other two species are
1090:Zoutpansberg girdled lizard
846:Attenborough's flat lizard (
603:N’Dolondolo girdled lizard (
540:McLachlan's girdled lizard (
747:Lawrence's girdled lizard (
738:Campbell's girdled lizard (
594:Oelofsen's girdled lizard (
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1396:Reptiles described in 1933
1106:Mozambique girdled lizard
972:Soutpansberg flat lizard (
822:Armadillo girdled lizard (
648:Transvaal girdled lizard (
621:Ethiopian girdled lizard (
612:Rhodesian girdled lizard (
567:Kaokoveld girdled lizard (
513:Machado's girdled lizard (
426:Large-scale grass lizard (
1130:Van Dam's girdled lizard
1082:Waterberg girdled lizard
1074:Barberton girdled lizard
1041:Drakensberg crag lizard (
705:Jordan's girdled lizard (
495:Rooiberg girdled lizard (
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24:Rhodesian girdled lizard
23:
1138:Warren's girdled lizard
927:Mitchell's flat lizard (
855:Broadley's flat lizard (
765:Peers’s girdled lizard (
756:Namaqua girdled lizard (
531:Marungu girdled lizard (
504:Limpopo girdled lizard (
468:Angolan girdled lizard (
408:Transvaal grass lizard (
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248:Zimbabwe girdled lizards
244:Zimbabwe girdled lizards
189:Rhodesian girdled lizard
954:Sekukhune flat lizard (
945:Ocellated flat lizard (
918:Waterberg flat lizard (
774:Herero girdled lizard (
639:Ukinga girdled lizard (
549:Mecula girdled lizard (
477:Maasai girdled lizard (
230:Zimbabwe girdled lizard
1050:Northern crag lizard (
1014:Highveld crag lizard (
585:Nyika girdled lizard (
576:Black girdled lizard (
435:Zambian grass lizard (
1114:Regal girdled lizard
1098:Giant girdled lizard
981:Striped flat lizard (
909:Spotted flat lizard (
900:Lebombo flat lizard (
882:Emperor flat lizard (
486:Cape girdled lizard (
232:, they live in rocky
1210:Cordylus_rhodesianus
1196:Cordylus rhodesianus
1166:Cordylus rhodesianus
1122:Swazi dragon lizard
1005:Lang's crag lizard (
963:Pungwe flat lizard (
891:Common flat lizard (
800:N. coeruleopunctatus
681:Dwarf cliff lizard (
271:Cordylus rhodesianus
240:have femoral pores.
194:Cordylus rhodesianus
170:Cordylus rhodesianus
1076:(S. barbertonensis)
1032:Spiny crag lizard (
873:Dwarf flat lizard (
672:Cape cliff lizard (
444:Cape snake lizard (
417:Cape grass lizard (
152:C. rhodesianus
31:Conservation status
1023:Cape crag lizard (
864:Cape flat lizard (
228:Also known as the
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1052:P. transvaalensis
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974:P. relictus
875:P. guttatus
866:P. capensis
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