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Platysaurus maculatus (Spotted Flat Lizard)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Spotted Flat Lizard is a lizard in the Cordylidae family. It lives in Mozambique. The Spotted Flat Lizard has two subspecies, P. m. maculatus and P. m. linecauda. Both were described in 1965.
View Wikipedia Record: Platysaurus maculatus

Infraspecies

Platysaurus maculatus lineicauda
Platysaurus maculatus maculatus

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Saxicolous
Litter Size [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Miombo woodlands Tanzania, Mozambique Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, 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
♦ 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
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