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Large-scale grass lizard
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Cordylidae
Genus:	Chamaesaura
Species:	C. macrolepis
Binomial name
Chamaesaura macrolepis Cope, 1862

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.

Distributation

The large-scale grass lizard lives in grasslands in South Africa, Eswatini, 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.

Footnotes

1. Bates, M.F.; Tolley, K.A. (2018). "Chamaesaura macrolepis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T110159014A115673966. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T110159014A115673966.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. ^ "Chamaesaura macrolepis COPE, 1862". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
3. "Chamaesaura macrolepis". UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Retrieved 2008-01-06.

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