Zonosaurus Species
The following 17 species are considered to be valid.
Zonosaurus aeneus (Grandidier , 1872) – bronze girdled lizardZonosaurus anelanelany Raselimanana , Raxworthy & Nussbaum , 2000Zonosaurus bemaraha Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000 Zonosaurus boettgeri Steindachner , 1891Zonosaurus brygooi Lang & Böhme , 1990Zonosaurus haraldmeieri Brygoo & Böhme, 1985Zonosaurus karsteni (Grandidier, 1869) – Karsten's girdled lizardZonosaurus laticaudatus (Grandidier, 1869) – western girdled lizardZonosaurus madagascariensis (Gray , 1831) – Madagascar girdled lizardZonosaurus maramaintso Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2006 Zonosaurus maximus Boulenger , 1896Zonosaurus ornatus (Gray, 1831) – ornate girdled lizardZonosaurus quadrilineatus (Grandidier, 1867) – four-lined girdled lizardZonosaurus rufipes (Boettger , 1881) – red-legged girdled lizardZonosaurus subunicolor (Boettger, 1881) Zonosaurus trilineatus Angel , 1939Zonosaurus tsingy Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000 – tsingy plated lizardNota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Zonosaurus .
References
1 2 "Zonosaurus ". Dahms Tierleben . www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gerrhosauridae. 1 2 Genus Zonosaurus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
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.
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