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Angolan girdled lizard
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Cordylidae
Genus:	Cordylus
Species:	C. angolensis
Binomial name
Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895)
Synonyms
Zonurus angolensis Bocage, 1895 Cordylus cordylus angolensis — Loveridge, 1944 Cordylus angolensis — Visser, 1971

The Angolan girdled lizard (Cordylus angolensis), also known as the Angolan spiny-tailed lizard, is a species of lizard in the genus Cordylus. The species is endemic to Angola, as its names testify, and is ovoviviparous.

Reproduction

C. angolensis is ovoviviparous, meaning females keep eggs inside their bodies until ready to hatch.

References

1. Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Baptista, N.; Conradie, W. (2020). "Cordylus angolensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T110159200A110159225. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T110159200A110159225.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. ^ "Cordylus angolensis names". UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Archived from the original on 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
3. ^ "Cordylus angolensis BOCAGE, 1895". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
4. "Cordylus angolensis distribution". UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Archived from the original on 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
5. "Cordylus angolensis". ZipcodeZoo.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-13. Retrieved 2008-01-13.

Further reading

• Bocage JVB. 1895. Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Lisbon: Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies. (Imprimerie nationale, printer). xx + 203 pp. + Plates I-XIX. (Zonurus angolensis, new species, pp. 24–25). (in French).

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