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Gerrhosaurus skoogi (Desert Plated Lizard)

Synonyms: Angolosaurus skoogi

Wikipedia Abstract

The desert plated lizard (Gerrhosaurus skoogi) is a reptile species endemic to the northern Namib Desert in Namibia and Angola. Also known as the sand plated lizard, it is diurnal. Recent studies suggest that this monotypic genus is synonymous to Gerrhosaurus and makes it paraphyletic, therefore A. skoogi was reclassified as Gerrhosaurus skoogi.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  56 grams
Birth Weight [2]  5 grams
Female Weight [2]  78 grams
Gestation [2]  3 months 5 days
Litter Size [2]  4
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  17 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  6 inches (14 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Fossorial, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Kaokoveld desert Namibia, Angola Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namib desert Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Skeleton Coast Game Park II 4168395 Namibia  

Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0