| Mitchell's flat lizard | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Cordylidae |
| Genus: | Platysaurus |
| Species: | P. mitchelli |
| Binomial name | |
| Platysaurus mitchelli Loveridge, 1953 | |
Mitchell's flat lizard (Platysaurus mitchelli) is a species of lizards in the family Cordylidae.
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
P. mitchelli is found in Malawi.
Reproduction
P. mitchelli is oviparous.
References
- Verburgt, L.; Pietersen, D.; Chapeta, Y.; Farooq, H. (2020). "Platysaurus mitchelli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T110164740A110164755. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T110164740A110164755.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ "Platysaurus mitchelli ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Platysaurus mitchelli, p. 179).
Further reading
- Loveridge A (1953). "Zoological Results of a Fifth Expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 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.
External links
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| Platysaurus mitchelli | |
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