Smaug vandami (FITZSIMONS, 1930)

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Higher Taxa	Cordylidae (Cordylinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Van Dam’s Girdled Lizard
Synonym	Zonurus vandami FITZSIMONS 1930: 25 Zonurus vandami perkoensis FITZSIMONS 1930: 27 Cordylus vandami vandami — FITZSIMONS 1943 Cordylus warreni perkoensis — LOVERIDGE 1944 Cordylus warreni vandami — LOVERIDGE 1944 Cordylus vandami — BRANCH 1998 Smaug vandami — STANLEY et al. 2011 Smaug vandami — REISSIG 2014
Distribution	Repubic of South Africa (North Province) Type locality: Gravelotte, near Leydsdorp, Eastern Transvaal perkoensis: Type locality: on farm “Perkoe”, near the Olifants River, Eastern Transvaal.
Reproduction	Ovoviviparous.
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 7407 Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 12804, adult female [perkoensis]
Diagnosis
Comment	See also S. warreni. Synonymy partly after JACOBSEN (unpubl. thesis, 1989) and E. Stanley (pers. comm., 31 Oct 2011).
Etymology	named after the collector of the types, G.P.F. van Dam, Esq.
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. Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Branch, W. R. 1998. Field Guide to the Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. 3rd ed. Fully Revised and Updated to Include 83 New Species. Ralph Curtis Books (Sanibel Island, Florida), 399 pp. 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 FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp. Harport, V. 2019. Familienurlaub mal anders – Südafrikas Norden. Reptilia (Münster) 24 (135): 70-79 - get paper here Loveridge,A. 1944. Revision of the African lizards of the family Cordylidae. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 95 (1): 1-118 - get paper here Mouton, le Fras; Alexander Flemming; Michael Bates and Chris Broeckhoven 2018. The relationship between generation gland morphology and armour in Dragon Lizards (Smaug): a reassessment of ancestral states for the Cordylidae. Amphibia-Reptilia 39 (4): 445–456 - get paper here Reissig, J. 2014. Girdled Lizards and Their Relatives. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, ISBN-10: 3899734378 Stanley, E. L. and Bates, M. F. 2014. Here be dragons: a phylogenetic and biogeographical study of the Smaug warreni species complex (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southern Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172 (4): 892–909; doi: 10.1111/zoj.12187 - 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 Google images

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