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Chamaesaura macrolepis (COPE, 1862)

IUCN Red List - Chamaesaura macrolepis - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaCordylidae (Cordylinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Large-scale Grass Lizard, Large-scale Snake Lizard 
SynonymMancus macrolepis COPE 1862: 339
Chamaesaura macrolepis — BOULENGER 1885: 264
Chamaesaura macrolepis — HELLMICH 1957: 52
Chamaesaura macrolepis macrolepis — BRANCH 1988
Chamaesaura macrolepis macrolepis — BOYCOTT 1992
Chamaesaura macrolepis — SCHMIDT 1919: 607
Cordylus macrolepis — FROST et al. 2001
Chamaesaura macrolepis — STANLEY et al. 2011
Chamaesaura macrolepis — BATES et al. 2014: 185
Chamaesaura macrolepis — STANDER 2023: 86 
DistributionSE Republic of South Africa, Eswatini (Swaziland), Zambia, S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Zimbabwe

Type locality: Natal, Umvoti  
ReproductionOvoviviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ANSP 9708-09 (2) 
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CommentDistribution: not in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi fide S. Spawls, pers. comm., 28 June 2018). Reports from Angola probably represent C. miopropus (fide MARQUES et al. 2018: 226). 
EtymologyNamed after Greek makros (μακρός), long; large in size or degree, great + Greek lepis (λεπίς), scale. 
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.
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. G. 1971. The reptiles and amphibians of Zambia. The Puku, Occas. Pap. Dept. Wild. Fish. Natl. Parks Zambia 6: 1-143
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843
  • 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
  • Conradie W and Branch WR. 2016. The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10 (2) [Special Section]: 6–36 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1862. Notes upon some reptiles of the Old World. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 14: 337-344 - get paper here
  • Frost, D.; Janies, D.; Le Fras N. Mouton, P. & Titus, T. 2003. A molecular perspective on the phylogeny of the Girdled Lizards (Cordylidae, Squamata). American Museum Novitates (3310): 1-10 - get paper here
  • Gotch, A. F. 1986. Reptiles - Their Latin Names Explained. Blandford Press, 176 pp.
  • 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
  • Hellmich, Walter 1957. Die Reptilienausbeute der Hamburgischen Angola-Expedition. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut (Hamburg), 55: 39-80.
  • Hewitt, John 1911. Records of South African Lacertilia and Amphibia, Addenda and Corrigenda. Annals Transvaal Museum 3 (1): 42-55. - get paper here
  • Jacobsen, Niels H. G. 1995. Geographical Distribution. Sauria: Cordylidae: Chamaesaura macrolepis macrolepis (Cope, 1862). African Herp News (23): 48. - get paper here
  • JORDAAN, PR & JCA STEYL 2021. Fire associated exertion myopathy as a mechanism contributing to mortality in Chamaesaura macrolepis (Cope 1862),. African Journal of Herpetology (2021): 1-8 - get paper here
  • MOUTON, P. LE FRAS N.; DAHNÉ A. JANSE VAN RENSBURG and JOHANNES H. VAN WYK 2010. Epidermal glands in cordylid lizards, with special reference to generation glands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 312–324. - get paper here
  • Pietersen, Darren and Errol Pietersen 2002. Geographic Distribution. Chamaesaura macrolepis macrolepis. African Herp News (35):24 - get paper here
  • Schmidt, Karl Patterson 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385-624 - get paper here
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Stander, R.I. 2023. The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 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
  • 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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