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251:The Transvaal grass lizard inhabits
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347:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
307:word meaning "bronze" or "copper."
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698:Coastal spiny-tailed lizard (
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716:McLachlan's girdled lizard (
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998:Armadillo girdled lizard (
824:Transvaal girdled lizard (
797:Ethiopian girdled lizard (
788:Rhodesian girdled lizard (
743:Kaokoveld girdled lizard (
689:Machado's girdled lizard (
602:Large-scale grass lizard (
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941:Peers’s girdled lizard (
932:Namaqua girdled lizard (
707:Marungu girdled lizard (
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1121:Ocellated flat lizard (
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752:Black girdled lizard (
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1274:Giant girdled lizard
1157:Striped flat lizard (
1085:Spotted flat lizard (
1076:Lebombo flat lizard (
1058:Emperor flat lizard (
662:Cape girdled lizard (
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1298:Swazi dragon lizard
1181:Lang's crag lizard (
1139:Pungwe flat lizard (
1067:Common flat lizard (
976:N. coeruleopunctatus
857:Dwarf cliff lizard (
468:The Reptile Database
435:"Reptiles Checklist"
201:coppery grass lizard
199:, also known as the
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1208:Spiny crag lizard (
1049:Dwarf flat lizard (
848:Cape cliff lizard (
620:Cape snake lizard (
593:Cape grass lizard (
377:"Chamaesaura aenea"
267:Habits and breeding
40:Conservation status
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1334:Taxon identifiers
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1201:P. microlepidotus
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1042:P. capensis
1013:Platysaurus
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905:Namazonurus
850:H. capensis
826:C. vittifer
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575:Chamaesaura
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245:Drakensberg
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148:Chamaesaura
1600:Categories
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727:C. meculae
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622:C. tenuior
595:C. anguina
533:Cordylidae
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323:References
137:Cordylidae
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989:Ouroboros
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763:C. nyikae
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