Platysaurus orientalis FITZSIMONS, 1941

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Higher Taxa	Cordylidae (Platysaurinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Platysaurus orientalis orientalis FITZSIMONS 1941 Platysaurus orientalis fitzsimonsi LOVERIDGE 1944
Common Names	orientalis: Sekhukhune Flat Lizard fitzsimonsi: Fitzsimons’ Flat Lizard
Synonym	Platysaurus orientalis orientalis FITZSIMONS 1941: 280 Platysaurus minor orientalis FITZSIMONS 1941 Platysaurus guttatus orientalis LOVERIDGE 1944 Platysaurus orientalis orientalis — JACOBSEN & NEWBERY 1989 Platysaurus orientalis orientalis — ADOLPHS 2006 Platysaurus orientalis orientalis — STANLEY et al. 2011 Platysaurus orientalis orientalis — BATES et al. 2014: 222 Platysaurus orientalis fitzsimonsi LOVERIDGE 1944 Platysaurus guttatus fitzsimonsi LOVERIDGE 1944 Platysaurus fitzsimonsi BROADLEY 1978 Platysaurus orientalis fitzsimonsi — JACOBSEN & NEWBERY 1989 Platysaurus orientalis fitzsimonsi — ADOLPHS 2006 Platysaurus orientalis fitzsimonsi — STANLEY et al. 2011 Platysaurus orientalis fitzsimonsi — BATES et al. 2014: 222
Distribution	Republic of South Africa Type locality: Sekororo, on the lower slopes of the Drakensberg, about 40 mi south of Leysdorp. fitzsimonsi: Republic of South Africa (Sekhukhuneland of Mpumalanga and Limpopo)
Reproduction	Oviparous
Types	Syntypes: DNMNH (= TM) 4527-4530 (3 males, 1 female) Holotype: MCZ 8982, an adult male, received in exchange from the British Museum, 1913 [fitzsimonsi]
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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. Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S. 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.M. 1941. Descriptions of some new lizards from South Africa and a frog from southern Rhodesia. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (3): 273-281 - 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 Kober, I. 2015. Weihnachten im Busch. Reptilien und mehr auf Makutsi (Südafrika). Reptilia (Münster) 20 (116): 68-79 - 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 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… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/415979837293287/ Google images

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