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Mitchell's flat lizard

Mitchell's flat lizard (Platysaurus mitchelli) is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to Southeast Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, mitchelli, is in honor of naturalist Bernard Lindley Mitchell of the Department of Game, Fish, and Tsetse Control in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the 1940s.

Geographic range

Platysaurus mitchelli is found in Malawi and Mozambique.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of Platysaurus mitchelli is rocky areas, in both forest and grassland, at elevations of .

Behavior

Platysaurus mitchelli shelters in cracks and crevices of rocks, emerging to forage.

Reproduction

Platysaurus mitchelli is oviparous.

References

Further reading

  • 303 pp. (in German)
  • Loveridge, A. (1953). "Zoological Results of a Fifth Expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 110 (3): 142–322. (Platysaurus mitchelli, new species, pp. 234–237).
  • Stanley, Edward L.; Bauer, Aaron M.; Jackman, Todd R.; Branch, William R.; Mouton, P. Le Fras N. (2011). "Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58 (1): 53–70.

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