Misplaced Pages

Jordan’s girdled lizard
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Cordylidae
Genus:	Karusasaurus
Species:	K. jordani
Binomial name
Karusasaurus jordani (Parker, 1936)
Synonyms
Zonurus jordani Parker, 1936 Cordylus jordani — FitzSimons, 1943 Cordylus polyzonus jordani — Loveridge, 1944 Cordylus jordani — Branch, 1988 Karusasaurus jordani — Stanley et al., 2011

Karusasaurus jordani, also known commonly as Jordan's girdled lizard and the Namibian girdled lizard, is a species of small, spiny lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is endemic to Namibia.

Etymology

The specific name, jordani, is in honor of German-born British entomologist Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan.

Geographic range

K. jordani is found in central Namibia.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of K. jordani is rocky hillsides in savanna, at altitudes of 1,000–1,800 m (3,300–5,900 ft).

Description

Adults of K. jordani usually have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 11–12 cm (4.3–4.7 in), and maximum recorded SVL is 12.7 cm (5.0 in). The body is robust, not flattened. Adults are uniformly olive-brown, but juveniles are buff with dark crossbars. Males have only 5–8 femoral pores.

Reproduction

The mode of reproduction of K. jordani has been described as viviparous and as ovoviviparous.

References

1. ^ Bauer, A.M.; Becker, F. (2020). "Karusasaurus jordani ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T110161006A110161062. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T110161006A110161062.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. ^ Karusasaurus jordani at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2020.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cordylus jordani, p. 136).
4. Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa Third Revised edition, Second Impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books Publishing. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Cordylus jordani, p. 193 + Plate 69).

Further reading

• Parker HW (1936). "Dr. Karl Jordan's Expedition to South-West Africa and Angola: Herpetological Collections". Novitates Zoologica (Tring) 40: 115–146. (Zonurus jordani, new species, pp. 133–134).
• FitzSimons VF (1943). The Lizards of South Africa. Pretoria: Transvaal Museum. xv + 528 pp. (Cordylus jordani, new combination).
• Schleicher, Alfred (2020). Reptiles of Namibia. Windhoek, Namibia: Kuiseb Publishers. 271 pp.
• Stanley EL, Bauer AM, Jackman TR, Branch WR, Mouton PLFN (2011). "Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 53–70. (Karusasaurus jordani, new combination).

This lizard article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• IUCN Red List least concern species
• Karusasaurus
• Reptiles of Namibia
• Endemic fauna of Namibia
• Reptiles described in 1936
• Taxa named by Hampton Wildman Parker
• Lizard stubs