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Smaug breyeri (VAN DAM, 1921)

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Higher TaxaCordylidae (Cordylinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Waterberg Dragon Lizard, Waterberg Girdled Lizard 
SynonymZonurus breyeri VAN DAM 1921
Cordylus warreni breyeri — FITZSIMONS 1943
Cordylus breyeri — BRANCH 1998
Smaug breyeri — STANLEY et al. 2011
Smaug breyeri — BATES et al. 2014: 208 
DistributionSouth Africa: Northern Province - Waterberg and environs

Type locality: Farm Geelhoutkop, Waterberg District [Northern Province, South Africa].  
ReproductionOvoviviparous. 
TypesHolotype: TM 3769, adult female, paratypes: TM 
Diagnosis 
CommentSee also S. warreni. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Hermann Gottfried Breyer (1864-1923), a Dutch naturalist, botanist, and physician who collected in Transvaal and Mozambique (1890-1910). He became Curator (1901) and then Director (1913-1921) of the renamed Transvaal Museum and Zoological Gardens. 
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.
  • Broeckhoven, C., Diedericks, G., Hui, C., Makhubo, B. G. and Mouton, P. l. F. N. 2016. Enemy at the gates: Rapid defensive trait diversification in an adaptive radiation of lizards. Evolution, 70: 2647–2656.doi:10.1111/evo.13062 - get paper here
  • Dam, G.P.F. van 1921. Descriptions of new species of Zonurus, and notes on the species of Zonurus occurring in the Transvaal. Annals Transvaal Mus. 7 (4): 239-243 - get paper here
  • FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp.
  • 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
  • Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
 
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