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Cordylus ukingensis (LOVERIDGE, 1932)

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Higher TaxaCordylidae (Cordylinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ukinga Girdled Lizard
G: Ukinga-Gürtelschweif 
SynonymZonurus ukingensis LOVERIDGE 1932: 378
Cordylus ukingensis — LOVERIDGE 1944
Cordylus ukingensis — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 19
Cordylus ukingensis — ADOLPHS 2006
Cordylus ukingensis — STANLEY et al. 2011
Cordylus ukingensis — SPAWLS et al 2018: 212 
DistributionTanzania

Type locality: Tandala, Ukinga, Tanzania.  
ReproductionOvoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 30761 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Agrees with the cordylus group in having the fronto- nasal separated from the rostral by the nasals, absence of occipital spines and supranasal, the nostril being in a large nasal, a scaly lower eyelid, large lateral scales, a frontonasal, nasal not strongly swollen. It differs from all of the cordylus group in lacking a loreal which is correlated with the presence of an enormous preocular; also in its possession of sharply keeled temporals and obtusely keeled ventrals.
It also differs from Z. c. jonesi in the much greater development of mucros and keels on all parts of the body. It also differs from Z. c. cordylus in the short blunt head which is not so depressed and in the reticulate ribbing of the dorsal scales which it shares with Z. c. jonesi.” (Loveridge 1932: 378)


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CommentDistribution: see map in GREENBAUM et al. 2012. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Adolphs, K. 2006. Bibliotheca Cordyliformium. Squamata Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 303 pp.
  • 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. & W. R. Branch 2002. A review of the small east African Cordylus (Sauria: Cordylidae), with the description of a new species. African Journal of Herpetology 51 (1): 9-34 - get paper here
  • Greenbaum, Eli; Edward L. Stanley, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Moninga, Stephen R. Goldberg & Charles R. Bursey 2012. A new species of Cordylus (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Marungu Plateau of south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. African Journal of Herpetology 61 (1): 14-39 - get paper here
  • Henkel,F.W. & Schmidt, W. 2007. Taschenatlas Reptilien. Ulmer Verlag, 192 pp.
  • Loveridge, A. 1932. New reptiles and amphibians from Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 72: 375-387 - 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
  • Reissig, J. 2014. Girdled Lizards and Their Relatives. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, ISBN-10: 3899734378
  • Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Fjeldså, J., Collett, L., Doggart, N., Leonard, C., Norton, G., Owen, N., Perkin, A., Spitale, D., Ahrends, A., Burgess, N. D. 2014. Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12246 - 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
  • 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
 
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