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Chamaesaura macrolepis (Large-scale Snake Lizard)

Synonyms: Mancus macrolepis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Large-scale Grass Lizard (Chamaesaura macrolepis), also known as the Large-scaled Snake Lizard, Zambian Grass Lizard, or Zambian Snake Lizard, is a species of lizard in the genus Chamaesaura. It lives scattered across southern Africa with two subspecies.
View Wikipedia Record: Chamaesaura macrolepis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.724 inches (12 cm)

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan 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
2Meiri, 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
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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