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Ninurta coeruleopunctatus
At Nature's Valley, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Cordylidae
Genus:	Ninurta Stanley, Bauer, Jackman, Branch, & Mouton, 2011
Species:	N. coeruleopunctatus
Binomial name
Ninurta coeruleopunctatus (Methuen & Hewitt, 1913)
Synonyms
Zonurus coeruleopunctatus Hewitt and Methuen, 1913 Cordylus coeruleopunctatus (Hewitt and Methuen, 1913)

Ninurta coeruleopunctatus (syn. Cordylus coeruleopunctatus), the blue-spotted girdled lizard or simply blue-spotted lizard, is a monotypic genus that is endemic to southern, coastal South Africa. The Ninurta coeruleopunctatus, as a member of the Cordylinae subfamily, demonstrates significant variability in body armor. This variation is a cause of the diverse evolutionary pressures within the subfamily. The environments aridity is the significant cause for this body armour's evolution.

References

1. ^ Bates, M.F. & Mouton, P.L.F.N. (2018). "Ninurta coeruleopunctatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T110163048A115676289. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T110163048A115676289.en.
2. ^ Ninurta coeruleopunctatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 19 December 2018.

External links

• Blue-spotted girdled lizard
• Ninurta gen. nov.: Stanley et al, 2011, Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)
• Media related to Blue-spotted girdled lizard at Wikimedia Commons

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• Cordylidae
• Reptiles described in 1913
• Endemic reptiles of South Africa
• Taxa named by Paul Ayshford Methuen
• Taxa named by John Hewitt (herpetologist)
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