Large-scale Grass Lizard
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Chamaesaura macrolepis [[Cope {surname)|Cope]], 1862[1] |
The Large-scale Grass Lizard, also known as the Large-scaled Snake Lizard or the Zambian Grass Lizard or the Zambian Snake Lizard,[2] is a species of lizard in the genus Chamaesaura. It lives scattered across southern Africa.[1] It has two subspecies.[1]
[edit] Distributation
The Large-scale Grass Lizard lives in grasslands in South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]
[edit] Subspecies
The Large-scale Grass Lizard has two subspecies.
- C. m. macrolepis - This subspecies was discovered by Cope in 1862.
- C. m. miopropus - In 1894, George Albert Boulenger discovered a second subspecies.