Cordylus mclachlani MOUTON, 1986

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Higher Taxa	Cordylidae (Cordylinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: McLachlan’s Girdled Lizard G: McLachlans Gürtelschweif
Synonym	Cordylus mclachlani MOUTON 1986 Cordylus mclachlani — ADOLPHS 2006 Cordylus mclachlani — STANLEY et al. 2011 Cordylus mclachlani — REISSIG 2014
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (Koue Bokkeveld in W Cape) Type locality: Koue Bokkeveld, near Ceres, South Africa, 32°49' 03" S, 19°27'58" E.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: SAM 47100, adult male. Allotype: SAM 47101, adult female. Parotypes: SAM 47101- 47109,three adult males, one subadult male and four adult females. SAM 47101 and SAM 47109 collected 14 April 1985, all other specimens collected 8 May 1985.
Diagnosis
Comment	Ovoviviparous.
Etymology	Named after Dr. G.R. Mclachlan, herpetologist at the South African Museum, Cape Town, in appreciation of his contribution towards herpetology in South Africa.
References	Adolphs, K. 2006. Bibliotheca Cordyliformium. Squamata Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 303 pp. 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. Mouton P le F N 1986. Description of a new species of Cordylus Laurenti (Reptilia: Cordylidae) from the south-western Cape, South Africa. South African J Zoology 21 (4) 1986: 319-324 - get paper here Mouton, P. le F. N., Visser, J. D., Wyk, J. H. van 1992. Morphological variation in the girdled lizard Cordylus mclachlani MOUTON, 1986. South African J Zoology 27 (1): 35-37 - get paper here MOUTON, P. LE FRAS N.; DAHNÉ A. JANSE VAN RENSBURG and JOHANNES H. VAN WYK 2010. Epidermal glands in cordylid lizards, with special reference to generation glands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 312–324. - get paper here Reissig, J. 2014. Girdled Lizards and Their Relatives. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, ISBN-10: 3899734378 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 Tolley, Krystal A; Nicolas S Telford, Jody M Taft, Michael F Bates, Werner Conradie, Buyisile G Makhubo, Graham J Alexander 2021. Taxonomic inflation due to inadequate sampling: are girdled lizards (Cordylus minor species complex) from the Great Karoo one and the same? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135 (1): 1–24 [print 2022] - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/cordylidae/Cordylus… https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.7 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid… Google images

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