Platysaurus mitchelli LOVERIDGE, 1953
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| Higher Taxa | Cordylidae (Platysaurinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Mitchell's Flat Lizard |
| Synonym | Platysaurus mitchelli LOVERIDGE 1953
Platysaurus mitchelli — ADOLPHS 2006
Platysaurus mitchelli — STANLEY et al. 2011
Platysaurus mitchelli — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 |
| Distribution | Malawi
Type locality: Ruo River Forest, Mt Mlanje
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| Reproduction | Oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ R-50657 |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after B. L. Mitchell, a naturalist who worked for the Department of Game, Fish, and Tsetse Control in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the 1940s. |
| References |
- Adolphs, K. 2006. Bibliotheca Cordyliformium. Squamata Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 303 pp.
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- 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
- Loveridge, A. 1953. Zoological Results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 110 (3): 142-322. - get paper here
- Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373
- 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
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