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Zonosaurus ornatus (Ornate Girdled Lizard)

Synonyms: Cicigna madagascariensis ornata; Cicigna madagascariensis var. ornata; Gerrhosaurus lineatus

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Madagascar ericoid thickets Madagascar Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Madagascar subhumid forests Madagascar Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kirindy Forest Reserve   Madagascar      
Ranomafana National Park II 100646 Madagascar  
Réserve Naturelle Intégrale d'Andringitra National Park II 76961 Madagascar

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles Yes

Range Map

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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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