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Large scale grass lizard

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Kingdom
  
Genus
  
Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

Family
  
Scientific name
  
Chamaesaura macrolepis

Higher classification
  
Chamaesaura

Order
  
Scaled reptiles

Similar
  
Chamaesaura, Transvaal grass lizard, Ukinga girdled lizard, Waterberg flat lizard, Sekukhune flat lizard

The large-scale grass lizard (Chamaesaura macrolepis), also known as the large-scaled snake lizard, Zambian grass lizard, or Zambian snake lizard, is a species of lizard in the genus Chamaesaura. It lives scattered across southern Africa with two subspecies.

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Distributation

The large-scale grass lizard lives in grasslands in South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Subspecies

The large-scale grass lizard has two subspecies.

  • C. m. macrolepis - This subspecies was discovered by Cope in 1862.
  • C. m. miopropus - In 1894, George Albert Boulenger discovered a second subspecies.
  • References

    Large-scale grass lizard Wikipedia


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