Cordylus cordylus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Cordylidae
- Genus
- Cordylus
- Species
- Cordylus cordylus
- Scientific Name
- Cordylus cordylus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cordylus cordylus
Cordylus cordylus, the Cape girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa, where it inhabits crags, rocky outcrops and mountain summits. They evade predators by wedging themselves firmly in rock cracks.
...Cordylus cordylus in languages:
- Czech
- kruhochvost skalní
- Danish
- Kap-bæltehale
- English
- Cape Girdled Lizard
- English
- Tasman’s Girdled Lizard
- German
- Zwerg-Gürtelschweif
- Japanese
- ケープヨロイトカゲ
- Russian
- Обыкновенный поясохвост
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Cordylus angolensis
- Cordylus beraduccii
- Cordylus cordylus
- Cordylus imkeae
- Cordylus jonesii
- Cordylus machadoi
- Cordylus macropholis
- Cordylus marunguensis
- Cordylus mclachlani
- Cordylus meculae
- Cordylus minor
- Cordylus namakuiyus
- Cordylus niger
- Cordylus nyikae
- Cordylus oelofseni
- Cordylus phonolithos
- Cordylus rhodesianus
- Cordylus rivae
- Cordylus tropidosternum
- Cordylus ukingensis
- Cordylus vittifer




























































































































































