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Cordylus niger CUVIER, 1829

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Higher TaxaCordylidae (Cordylinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Black Girdled Lizard
G: Schwarzer Gürtelschweif 
SynonymCordylus niger CUVIER 1829
Calyptoprymnus verecundus DE VIS 1905: 46 (fide MOODY 1977)
Zonurus cordylus niger — ROSE 1926
Zonurus cordylus atrus POWER 1930
Cordylus cordylus niger — LOVERIDGE 1944
Cordylus niger — BRODY, MOUTON & GRANT 1993
Cordylus niger — FROST et al. 2001
Cordylus niger — STANLEY et al. 2011
Cordylus niger — REISSIG 2014 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (Cape Peninsula and Saldanha Bay, Cape Province)

Type locality: “Africa”.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesSyntypes: MNHN-RA 2795 and MNHN-RA 2795A 
Diagnosis 
CommentOvoviviparous. 
EtymologyNamed after its melanistic color, from Latin niger, nigra, nigrum = black. 
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.
  • Brygoo, Édouard-Raoul 1985. Les types de Cordylidés et de Dibamidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Catalogue critique. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4e sér., 7A (1): 249-265.
  • Cooper Jr., W.E. 2005. Duration of movement as a lizard foraging movement variable. Herpetologica 61 (4): 363-372 - get paper here
  • Cordes, I.G.; Mouton, P. Le F.N. 1995. The cryptic significance of melanism in cordylid lizards: a case study of Cordylus niger and C. polyzonus. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (44): 16-21 - get paper here
  • Cuvier, G. J. L. N. F. D. 1829. Le Regne Animal Distribué, d'apres son Organisation, pur servir de base à l'Histoire naturelle des Animaux et d'introduction à l'Anatomie Comparé. Nouvelle Edition [second edition]. Vol. 2. Les Reptiles. Déterville, Paris, i-xvi, 1-406 - get paper here
  • de Vis, Charles Walter de 1905. A new genus of lizard. On Typhlops torresianus. Ann. Queensland Museum (Brisbane) 6: 48 - get paper here
  • de Vis, Charles Walter de 1905. A new genus of lizard. Ann. Queensland Museum (Brisbane) 6: 46-52
  • Fraser M. 2023. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. Biodiversity Observations 13: 162–185. 14 March 2023 - 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
  • Heerden, A. J. Van; Le. F. N. Mouton, P.; Van Wyk, J.H. 1992. Description Of A Contact Zone Between Cordylus cordylus and Cordylus niger. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (40): 26-26 - get paper here
  • Heerden, A. J. van; Mouton, P. le Fras N. & Wyk, Johannes H. van 1992. Description of a Contact Zone Between Cordylus cordylus and Cordylus niger. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa (Proceedings of the Second H.A.A. Conference, Editors: Branch, William R.; Haagner, Gerald V. & Boycott, Richard C.) (Humewood), 40: 26. - get paper here
  • Kruschenski, V. & C. Kässer 2014. Südafrika. Zwischen Reptilien und den Big Five. Reptilia (Münster) 19 (106): 82-93
  • Moody, S.M. 1977. Redescription and taxonomic reassignment of Calyptoprymnus verecundus DE VIS (Lacertilia). Copeia 1977 (4): 759-760 - get paper here
  • Mouton P le F N; van Wyk J H 1990. Taxonomic status of the melanistic forms of the Cordylus cordylus complex (Reptilia: Cordylidae) in the south-western Cape, South Africa. South African J Zoology 25 (1): 31-38 - 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
  • Power,J.H. 1930. On the South African species of the genus Zonurus. Annals Transvaal Mus. 14 (1): 11-19 - get paper here
  • Reissig, J. 2014. Girdled Lizards and Their Relatives. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, ISBN-10: 3899734378
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  • Schönecker, P. 2014. Südafrika. Auf Reptiliensuche entlang der Garden Route. Reptilia (Münster) 19 (105): 80-93
  • Schwier, H. 2007. Gürtelschweife - die Gattung Cordylus. Reptilia (Münster) 12 (65): 16-23 - 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
  • Switak, Karl H. 1995. Die Gürtelschweife der Gattung Cordylus. TI-Magazin, Nr. 121 (Januar 1995), 42-47.
  • Wirth, M. 2009. Afrikanische Schönheit unter Pinguinen - Ökologische Beziehungen der Schnabelbrustschildkröte im Kapland Südafrikas. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (75): 66-75 - get paper here
  • WITBERG, M. 2012. The herpetofauna of Schaapen Island, Langebaan, South Africa. African Herp News (56): 11-16 - get paper here
 
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