Cordylosaurus subtessellatus (Smith, 1844)

Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2), pp. 15-61 : 38

DWARF PLATED LIZARD – Fig. 16

Cordylosaurus subtessellatus (Smith, 1844)

MATERIAL.— INP, 20 km SSW of Espinheira, 30 November 2013, 16º55ʹ54.1ʺS, 12º14ʹ42.0ʺE, 631 m (CAS 254785).

COMMENTS.— The species is known from the coastal areas of Benguela Province (Bocage 1867, 1895; Boulenger 1887) and from the Curoca River in Namibe Province (Bocage 1895). This specimen represents the southernmost record for Angola. The specimen was found hiding in a granite boulder crevice. Extralimitally, the species is widely distributed from the Little Karoo in the Western Cape of South Africa, north through the entire length of Namibia ( Branch 1998).

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FIGURE 16. Adult Dwarf Plated Lizard, Cordylosaurus subtessellatus (Smith, 1844), from near Espinheira. Photo by Edward Stanley.