Gerrhosaurus typicus (SMITH, 1837)

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Higher Taxa	Gerrhosauridae (Gerrhosaurinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Karoo Plated Lizard
Synonym	Pleurotuchus typicus SMITH 1837: 143 Gerrhosaurus typicus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 383 Gerrhosaurus typicus — FITZSIMONS 1943: 279 Gerrhosaurus typicus — BRANCH & BAUER 2005 Gerrhosaurus typicus — BATES et al. 2013 Gerrhosaurus typicus — SCHLEICHER 2020
Distribution	NW Republic of South Africa, Namibia Type locality: “Dry sandy flats of Little Namaqualand" [South Africa]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Types: BMNH 1946.8.18.30-31 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment
Etymology	Named after the Latin adjective typicus, supposedly referring to the species' morphology which was apparently considered as being typical for Pleurotuchus, the only species of the genus described by Smith and known at the time.
References	Baard, E.H.W. 1987. Geographical Distribution - Gerrhosaurus typicus. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (33): 29-29 - get paper here 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. BATES, MICHAEL F.; KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY, SHELLEY EDWARDS, ZOË DAVIDS, JESSICA M. DA SILVA, & WILLIAM R. BRANCH 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera. Zootaxa 3750 (5): 465–493 - get paper here Branch, William R. & Bauer, Aaron M. 2005. The herpetological contributions of Sir Andrew Smith. SSAR, 80 pp. Burger, Marius 1988. Geographical Distribution. Sauria: Cordylidae: Gerrhosaurus typicus (A. Smith). J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 35: 36. - get paper here Conradie, W.; V. F. KING, M. PRESSLY & A. LEANDER 2017. Gerrhosaurus typicus (A. Smith, 1837) Karoo Plated Lizard - CLUTCH SIZE,INCUBATION PERIOD AND HATCHLING DESCRIPTION. African Herp News (64): 28-30 - get paper here Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol. 5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp. - get paper here FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp. Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp. - get paper here Smith, A. 1837. The characters of two new genera of South African reptiles with descriptions of species belonging to each. Mag. Zool. Bot. (Jardine), Edinburgh-London-Dublin, 1 (2): 141-145 [1836] Telford, N. S., ALEXANDER, G. J., BECKER, F. S., CONRADIE, W., JORDAAN, A., KEMP, L., ... & TOLLEY, K. A. 2022. EXTENSIONS TO THE KNOWN GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS OF REPTILES IN THE GREAT KAROO, SOUTH AFRICA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 17(1), 145-154 - 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 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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