J.H. van Wyk, P. leF. N. Mouton,
... basal species in the phylogeny of the family Cordylidae and is endemic to the Cape Fold Mountains. ... nuptial’ and ‘pre-nuptial’ cycles previously described in Cordylidae lizards. Small testicular volume, associated with testicular regression, ... the autumn cycles reported for all other female Cordylidae lizards studied to date, therefore pointing to strong ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
1998 - Taylor & Francis | South African Journal of Zoology
P. le Fras N. Mouton, J.H. van Wyk,
... taken as the most basal genus in the Cordylidae. Ancestral values for reproductive mode, foraging mode, prey ... co-evolved in the immediate ancestor of the Cordylidae, while viviparity evolved in the immediate ancestor of ... a rupicolous lifestyle in the ancestor of the Cordylidae remains unknown, but these transitions could have served ... The distribution of extant species suggests that the Cordylidae/Gerrhosauridae divergence occurred in southern Africa, the former ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
1997 - Taylor & Francis | African Journal of Herpetology
Johann van As, Courtney A. Cook, Edward C. Netherlands, Nico J. Smit,
... have been reported from the African endemic family Cordylidae. This paper presents a description of a new ... of Plasmodium species within the African endemic family Cordylidae from South Africa. The study highlights the need ...
Tópico(s): Vector-borne infectious diseases
2016 - BioMed Central | Parasites & Vectors
le Fras Mouton, Alexander F. Flemming, Michael F. Bates, Chris Broeckhoven,
... spine length. An ancestral state reconstruction for the Cordylidae showed that the two-layer state always results ... plesiomorphic, and therefore the ancestral state at the Cordylidae and Cordylinae nodes. Given the observed relationship between ... that the most recent common ancestor of the Cordylidae was lightly armoured.
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2018 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia
Johann van As, Angela J. Davies, Nico J. Smit,
... Pseudocordylus melanotus (Smith) and Pseudocordylus subviridis (Smith) (Sauria: Cordylidae) from mountainous regions in the Eastern Free State, ...
Tópico(s): Mosquito-borne diseases and control
2015 - Institute of Parasitology of the Czech Academy of Sciences | Folia Parasitologica
Edward L. Stanley, Aaron M. Bauer, Todd R. Jackman, William R. Branch, P. le Fras N. Mouton,
Girdled lizards (Cordylidae) are sub-Saharan Africa's only endemic squamate family and contain 80 nominal taxa, traditionally divided into four ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2010 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
... families that are closely related to skinks, the Cordylidae (Girdle-tailed lizards) and the Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards). ...
Tópico(s): Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
2009 - Elsevier BV | Hearing Research
... within and between the scincomorph families Gerrhosauridae and Cordylidae are in need of re‐examination. Currently the ... A. skoogi within Gerrhosauridae. Unlike other Cordyliformes (Gerrhosauridae + Cordylidae), the post‐frontal in A. skoogi is not ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2007 - Taylor & Francis | African Journal of Herpetology
William R. Branch, Mark‐Oliver Rödel, Johan Marais,
... of Cordylus recorded from northern Mozambique. Key words: Cordylidae Cordylus new speciesMozambique
Tópico(s): Morphological variations and asymmetry
2005 - Taylor & Francis | African Journal of Herpetology
David W. Krause, Susan E. Evans, Ke‐Qin Gao,
... more specifically, a new genus and species of ?Cordylidae (Cordyliformes), based on a combination of gnathic, dental, ... the new taxon is correctly attributed to the Cordylidae, it constitutes a significant temporal and geographic range ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2003 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Gaëtano Odierna, Adriana Canapa, Franco Andreone, Gaetano Aprea, Marco Barucca, Teresa Capriglione, Ettore Olmo,
... the relationships between the Malagasy species and the Cordylidae and Gerrhosauridae. Nonetheless, the consistency between the data ... the karyological similarities between the former and the Cordylidae may be due to plesiomorphy. Interesting, though not ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2002 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Darrel R. Frost, Daniel Janies, P. le Fras N. Mouton, Tom A. Titus,
... for 16 species representing all nominal genera of Cordylidae (Platysaurus, Chamaesaura, Cordylus, and Pseudocordylus). Gerrhosauridae and Teiidae ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2001 - American Museum of Natural History | American Museum Novitates
Peter C. le Roux, Fras N. Mouton, H. Geertsema, Lourens Visagie,
... wait forager like other members of the family Cordylidae. In the laboratory, nine lizards were tested for ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2000 - Taylor & Francis | African Zoology
María Gabriela Perotti, Jorge Abel Céspedez,
... evidence supporting a viviparity-oviparity reversal in the Cordylidae. Amphibia-Reptilia 17:115-129. VERRELL, P. A. ... in the Cape flat lizard, Platysaurus capensis (Sauria: Cordylidae). Copeia 1997:811-818.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1999 - The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles | Journal of Herpetology
William R. Branch, Martin J. Whiting,
... M.J WHITING. 1997. A new Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Afr. ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
1997 - Taylor & Francis | African Journal of Herpetology
J.H. van Wyk, P. le Fras N. Mouton,
... oviparous genus Platysaurus in the predominantly viviparous family Cordylidae, endemic to Southern Africa. The reproductive cycles of ... to that of viviparous members of the family Cordylidae adds to the data that suggest that the ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1996 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia
P. le Fras N. Mouton, J.H. van Wyk,
... geographical isolates in the Cordylus minor complex (Reptilia: Cordylidae): A description of three new species. J. Herpetol. ...
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
1994 - Taylor & Francis | The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa
Barbara E. Bissinger, Carol A. Simon,
... 3.4 tongue extrusions/30 minutes for the Cordylidae to a high of 299.5/30 minutes ... the Teiidae. The frequency of tongue extrusions was: Cordylidae < Iguanidae < Gerrhosauridae < Scincidae < Helodermatidae < Teiidae. An increase in ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
1979 - The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles | Journal of Herpetology
Donald G. Broadley, P. le Fras N. Mouton,
... increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKey words: Cordylidae Cordylus taxonomyMalawi
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2000 - Taylor & Francis | African Journal of Herpetology
Bernard J. Jordaan, Johann van As, Edward C. Netherlands,
... tokoloshi n. sp., infecting South African cordylid lizards (Cordylidae: Cordylinae) are described in this study. The first ...
Tópico(s): Bird parasitology and diseases
2023 - Wiley | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
Carolyn E. Miehle, Aaron M. Bauer,
Major circulatory patterns in lizards of the family Cordylidae are poorly known, but may serve as a ...
Tópico(s): Bird parasitology and diseases
1993 - Taylor & Francis | South African Journal of Zoology
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1987 - British Herpetological Society | Herpetological Journal
Davit Vasilyan, Andrej Čerňanský, Zbigniew Szyndlar, Thomas Mörs,
... period such as Bufonidae, Hylidae, Pelodytidae, Amphisbaenia, Varanidae, Cordylidae, Pseudopus , are not found in the material available ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2022 - Wiley | Fossil record
Sebastian Mäder, Jonathan Goldenberg, Federico Massetti, Karen Bisschop, Liliana D’Alba, Rampal S. Etienne, Susana Clusella‐Trullas, Matthew D. Shawkey,
... Using the colour‐polyphenic lizard Karusasaurus polyzonus (Squamata: Cordylidae), we hypothesized that, under future climatic projections, darker ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2021 - Wiley | Functional Ecology
Mariana P. Marques, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Edward L. Stanley, Suzana Bandeira, Ishan Agarwal, Aaron M. Bauer,
A new species of rupicolous girdled lizard is described from Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, southwestern Angola. We sequenced two mitochondrial gene regions (16S and ND2) for the new species and compared these data with those previously published for other Cordylus species. The new species is genetically divergent from the closely related Cordylus machadoi and C. namakuiyus and morphologically distinguished by head scale arrangement, coloration, and osteological characters. Serra da Neve ...
Tópico(s): Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
2019 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Wade K. Stanton‐Jones, Shivan Parusnath, Graham J. Alexander,
... a Threatened lizard species, is unique amongst the Cordylidae in that lizards inhabit self-excavated burrows in ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Thermal Biology
Edward L. Stanley, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Suzana Bandeira, Hilária Valério, Michael F. Bates, William R. Branch,
The girdled lizard genus Cordylus is represented in Angola by two species, Cordylus angolensis and C. machadoi, separated from their nearest congeners by over 700 km. Here we describe a new species, Cordylus namakuiyus sp. nov., endemic to the arid lowlands west of the southern Angolan escarpment. Phylogenetic analysis using three mitochondrial and eight nuclear genes shows that the low-elevation forms and the proximate, high-elevation species C. machadoi are genetically divergent and reciprocally ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2016 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Chris Broeckhoven, Genevieve Diedericks, P. le Fras N. Mouton,
... yet, few explicit tests of the hypothesis exist. Cordylidae, a relatively small family of southern African lizards, ...
Tópico(s): Bird parasitology and diseases
2015 - Wiley | Journal of Animal Ecology
Martin J. Whiting, William R. Branch, Mitzy Pepper, J. Scott Keogh,
We describe a new species of flat lizard (Platysaurus attenboroughi sp. nov.) from the Richtersveld of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and the Fish River Canyon region of southern Namibia. This species was formerly confused with P. capensis from the Kamiesberg region of Namaqualand, South Africa. Genetic analysis based on one mtDNA and two nDNA loci found Platysaurus attenboroughi sp. nov. to be genetically divergent from P. capensis and these species can also be differentiated by a number ...
Tópico(s): Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
2015 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Edward L. Stanley, Michael F. Bates,
Taxonomy of the Smaug warreni species complex remains contentious despite known morphological differences and geographical separation of the various taxa. This study uses an 11-gene dataset to recover phylogenetic relationships between the seven nominal members of the S. warreni complex. Eight well-supported clades were returned, with S. warreni barbertonensis found to be paraphyletic. A time-calibrated analysis of molecular data indicates that all eight clades in the S. warreni complex separated ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2014 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society