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Genus of lizards

Zonosaurus

Ornate plated lizards (Z. ornatus), female and male Isalo National Park

Tsingy plated lizard (Z. tsingy), Ankarana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gerrhosauridae
Subfamily:	Zonosaurinae
Genus:	Zonosaurus Boulenger, 1887

Zonosaurus is a genus of lizards in the family Gerrhosauridae.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Zonosaurus are found in Madagascar and Seychelles.

The following 17 species are considered to be valid.

Zonosaurus aeneus (Grandidier, 1872) – bronze girdled lizard
Zonosaurus anelanelany Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000
Zonosaurus bemaraha Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000
Zonosaurus boettgeri Steindachner, 1891 – Boettger's girdled lizard
Zonosaurus brygooi Lang & Böhme, 1990 – Brygoo's girdled lizard
Zonosaurus haraldmeieri Brygoo & Böhme, 1985 – green zonosaur
Zonosaurus karsteni (Grandidier, 1869) – Karsten's girdled lizard
Zonosaurus laticaudatus (Grandidier, 1869) – western girdled lizard
Zonosaurus madagascariensis (Gray, 1831) – Madagascar girdled lizard
Zonosaurus maramaintso Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2006
Zonosaurus maximus Boulenger, 1896 – southeastern girdled lizard
Zonosaurus ornatus (Gray, 1831) – ornate girdled lizard
Zonosaurus quadrilineatus (Grandidier, 1867) – four-lined girdled lizard
Zonosaurus rufipes (Boettger, 1881) – red-legged girdled lizard
Zonosaurus subunicolor (Boettger, 1881)
Zonosaurus trilineatus Angel, 1939 – three-lined girdled lizard
Zonosaurus tsingy Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000 – tsingy plated lizard

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Zonosaurus.

^ "Zonosaurus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gerrhosauridae.
^ Genus Zonosaurus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ, ... xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Zonosaurus, new genus, p. 127).
Raselimanana AP, Raxworthy CJ, Nussbaum RA (2000). "A revision of the dwarf Zonosaurus Boulenger (Reptilia: Squamata: Cordylidae) from Madagascar, including descriptions of three new species". Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 18: 1–16.

Taxon identifiers
Zonosaurus	Wikidata: Q610069 Wikispecies: Zonosaurus ADW: Zonosaurus BOLD: 171580 CoL: 8B4S EoL: 36003 GBIF: 2451636 iNaturalist: 34699 IRMNG: 1109812 ITIS: 1141815 NCBI: 143653 Open Tree of Life: 980679 Paleobiology Database: 158508

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