Platysaurus minor FITZSIMONS, 1930

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Higher Taxa	Cordylidae (Platysaurinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Waterberg Flat Lizard
Synonym	Platysaurus guttatus minor FITZSIMONS 1930: 30 Platysaurus guttatus minor — BROADLEY 1978 Platysaurus minor — JACOBSEN & NEWBERY 1989 Platysaurus minor — SCOTT et al. 2004 Platysaurus minor — STANLEY et al. 2011
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (Northern Transvaal) Type locality: at Vygeboompoort, Waterberg District.
Reproduction	Oviparous
Types	Syntypes: DNMNH (= TM) 2109, adult male, DNMNH (= TM) 2367, adult female
Diagnosis
Comment
References	Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp. Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here Broadley, D. G. 1978. A revision of the Genus Platysaurus A. Smith. Occ. Papers Nat. Museum south. Rhodesia, B, 6 (4): 129-185 FitzSimons, V. F. 1930. Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with distribution records of allied species in the Transvaal Museum collection. Annals Transvaal Mus. 14: 20-48. - get paper here Jacobsen, N. H. G., Newbery, R. E. 1989. The genus Platysaurus A.SMITH 1844 in the Transvaal. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 36: 51-63 - get paper here Scott, Ian A.W.; J. Scott Keogh and Martin J. Whiting 2004. Shifting sands and shifty lizards: molecular phylogeny and biogeography of African flat lizards (Platysaurus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 618–629 - get paper here Stanley, Edward L.; Aaron M. Bauer; Todd R. Jackman, William R. Branch, P. Le Fras N. Mouton 2011. Between a rock and a hard polytomy: rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizard (Squamata: Cordylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 58(1): 53-70. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/cordylidae… http://www.finerareprints.com/animals/histoire_naturelle/vol_hn_reptiles… http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00024.1 Google images

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