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Platysaurus mitchelli LOVERIDGE, 1953

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Higher TaxaCordylidae (Platysaurinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mitchell's Flat Lizard 
SynonymPlatysaurus mitchelli LOVERIDGE 1953
Platysaurus mitchelli — ADOLPHS 2006
Platysaurus mitchelli — STANLEY et al. 2011 
DistributionMalawi

Type locality: Ruo River Forest, Mt Mlanje  
ReproductionOviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ R-50657 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed 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
  • 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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