Hemicordylus capensis
Species of lizard
| Cape Cliff Lizard | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Cordylidae |
| Genus: | Hemicordylus |
| Species: | H. capensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemicordylus capensis (Smith, 1838) | |
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The Cape Cliff Lizard (Hemicordylus capensis) is a lizard species endemic to the Cape Fold Belt of southern South Africa.
Description
The maximum snout-to-vent length is about 76 mm. Like its sister species Hemicordylus nebulosus, it has gracile features, with a phenotype described as intermediate between typical Cordylus and the larger, more robust Pseudocordylus. They have long limbs, and long slender digits. Some populations are melanistic and sexually dichromatic.
Habits
Their specialized adaptation to steep rock faces is believed to have favoured their agility and lightly armored anatomy.[2] They give live birth to one to three young.
References
- Hemicordylus resurrected: Stanley et al, 2011, Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)
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Extant Cordylidae species
- Transvaal grass lizard (C. aenea)
- Cape grass lizard (C. anguina)
- Large-scale grass lizard (C. macrolepis)
- Zambian grass lizard (C. miopropus)
- Cape snake lizard (C. tenuior)
- Angolan girdled lizard (C. angolensis)
- Maasai girdled lizard (C. beraduccii)
- Cape girdled lizard (C. cordylus)
- Rooiberg girdled lizard (C. imkeae)
- Limpopo girdled lizard (C. jonesii)
- Machado's girdled lizard (C. machadoi)
- Coastal spiny-tailed lizard (C. macropholis)
- Marungu girdled lizard (C. marunguensis)
- McLachlan's girdled lizard (C. mclachlani)
- Mecula girdled lizard (C. meculae)
- Western dwarf girdled lizard (C. minor)
- Kaokoveld girdled lizard (C. namakuiyus)
- Black girdled lizard (C. niger)
- Nyika girdled lizard (C. nyikae)
- Oelofsen's girdled lizard (C. oelofseni)
- N’Dolondolo girdled lizard (C. phonolithos)
- Rhodesian girdled lizard (C. rhodesianus)
- Ethiopian girdled lizard (C. rivae)
- East African spiny-tailed lizard (C. tropidosternum)
- Ukinga girdled lizard (C. ukingensis)
- Transvaal girdled lizard (C. vittifer)
- Cape cliff lizard (H. capensis)
- Dwarf cliff lizard (H. nebulosus)
- Jordan's girdled lizard (K. jordani)
- African spiny-tailed lizard (K. polyzonus)
- Campbell's girdled lizard (N. campbelli)
- Lawrence's girdled lizard (N. lawrenci)
- Namaqua girdled lizard (N. namaquensis)
- Peers’s girdled lizard (N. peersi)
- Herero girdled lizard (N. pustulatus)
- Blue-spotted girdled lizard (N. coeruleopunctatus)
- Armadillo girdled lizard (O. cataphractus)
- Attenborough's flat lizard (P. attenboroughi)
- Broadley's flat lizard (P. broadleyi)
- Cape flat lizard (P. capensis)
- Dwarf flat lizard (P. guttatus)
- Emperor flat lizard (P. imperator)
- Common flat lizard (P. intermedius)
- Lebombo flat lizard (P. lebomboensis)
- Spotted flat lizard (P. maculatus)
- Waterberg flat lizard (P. minor)
- Mitchell's flat lizard (P. mitchelli)
- Orange-throated flat lizard (P. monotropis)
- Ocellated flat lizard (P. ocellatus)
- Sekukhune flat lizard (P. orientalis)
- Pungwe flat lizard (P. pungweensis)
- Soutpansberg flat lizard (P. relictus)
- Striped flat lizard (P. torquatus)
- Lang's crag lizard (P. langi)
- Highveld crag lizard (P. melanotus)
- Cape crag lizard (P. microlepidotus)
- Spiny crag lizard (P. spinosus)
- Drakensberg crag lizard (P. subviridis)
- Northern crag lizard (P. transvaalensis)
- Barberton girdled lizard (S. barbertonensis)
- Waterberg girdled lizard (S. breyeri)
- Zoutpansberg girdled lizard (S. depressus)
- Giant girdled lizard (S. giganteus)
- Mozambique girdled lizard (S. mossambicus)
- Regal girdled lizard (S. regius)
- Swazi dragon lizard (S. swazicus)
- Van Dam's girdled lizard (S. vandami)
- Warren's girdled lizard (S. warreni)
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