Chamaesaura miopropus BOULENGER, 1895

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Higher Taxa	Cordylidae (Cordylinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Zambian snake-lizard, Zambian grass-lizard
Synonym	Chamaesaura miopropus BOULENGER 1895: 732 Chamaesaura miopropus — SCHMIDT 1933: 10 Chamaesaura macrolepis miopropus — BRANCH 1988 Chamaesaura macrolepis miopropus — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 19 Chamaesaura miopropus — HAAGNER 2000 Chamaesaura miopropus — BROADLEY & COTTERILL 2004 Chamaesaura miopropus — STANLEY et al. 2011 Chamaesaura miopropus — SPAWLS et al 2018: 206 Chamaesaura miopropus — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 Chamaesaura miopropus — CERÍACO et al. 2026
Distribution	S Tanzania (Grasslands), west through Zambia to Angola,Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Malawi Type locality: Fwambo, NE Zambia
Reproduction	viviparous or rather ovoviviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.8.29.49 (and possibly additional specimens). Other specimens in AMNH, CM, NMZB, UM,
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Comment	Distribution: see map in Ceriaco et al. 2026: 59 (Fig. 1), and p. 75 (Fig. 13).
Etymology	Named after Greek mion (μῖον, from μικρός), small + Greek propous (πρόπους), fore-foot. ["…Fore limb reduced to a minute clawed vestige, no longer than a scale…"].
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1895. Second report on additions to the lizard collection in the Natural History Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1894: 722-736 [published in April 1895 fide A. Bauer] - get paper here Branch,W.R. 1988. Field Guide to the snakes and other reptiles of southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, 328 pp. Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70 Broadley, Donald G. and F. P. D. Cotterill. 2004. The reptiles of southeast Katanga, an overlooked 'hot spot'. [Congo]. African Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 35-61. - get paper here Haagner,G.V.; Branch,W.R. & Haagner,A.J.F. 2000. Notes on a collection of reptiles from Zambia and adjacent areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museum 1: 1 – 25 Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II) 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 Schmidt, Karl Patterson 1933. The reptiles of the Pulitzer Angola Expedition. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 22 (1): 1-15 Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - 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 Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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