Hemicordylus capensis

Hemicordylus capensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Cordylidae
Subfamilia: Cordylinae
Genus: Hemicordylus
Species: Hemicordylus capensis

Name

• Hemicordylus capensis (Smith, 1838)

Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.7.89, ♂.

Type locality: “South Africa”, later specified to “Hottentot Holland Mountain [=Hottentots Holland Mountains], near Cape Town”, Western Cape Province, South Africa, by Smith (1843).

Combinations

• Cordylus (Hemicordylus) capensis Smith, 1838: 32 [original combination]
• Zonurus capensis — Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 360 [name combination]
• [Cordylus capensis] — FitzSimons, 1943: 436 [name combination, by implication]
• Pseudocordylus capensis — Loveridge, 1944: 70 [name combination]
• Hemicordylus capensis — Stanley et al., 2011: 66 [name combination]

Synonyms

• Zonurus robertsi Van Dam 1921: 241; plate IV [synonymized by Herselman, Mouton & Van Wyk (1992: 116)]

Holotype: TM 3747, adult indet.

Type locality: “Klaver, Van Rhynsdorp District, C.P. [=Cape Province, now Western Cape Province]”, South Africa.

Paratype (1): TM 3748, subadult indet., same locality as holotype.

References

Primary references

• Smith, A. 1838. Contributions to South African Zoology. Magazine of Natural History 2(1): 30–33. BHL Reference page. 
• Smith, A. 1838–1849. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; Consisting Chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected During an Expedition Into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836; Fitted Out by “The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa.” Published Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. Reptilia. Vol. 2. Smith, Elder and Co.: London. [100] + 28 pp., pls. 1–78. BHL Reference page. 
• Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. VIII + 854 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Van Dam, G.P.F. 1921. Descriptions of new species of Zonurus, and notes on the species of Zonurus occurring in the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7(4): 239–243. BHL Reference page. 
• FitzSimons, V. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoirs 1: 1–528. Reference page. 
• Loveridge, A. 1944. Revision of the African lizards of the family Cordylidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 95: 1–118, pls. 1–12. BHL Reference page. 
• Herselman, Y.M., Mouton, P. Le F.N. & Van Wyk, J.H. 1992. The status of the races of the graceful crag lizard, Pseudocordylus capensis, from South Africa. Amphibia-Reptilia 13(2): 109–119. DOI: 10.1163/156853892X00300 Reference page. 
• Stanley, E.L., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R., Branch, W.R. & Mouton, P. Le F.N. 2011. Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(1): 53–70. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.024 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Hemicordylus capensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 September 2017.

Vernacular names

English: Graceful Crag Lizard

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