Gerrhosaurus is a genus of lizards native to southern and eastern Africa.

Habitat

Species of Gerrhosaurus are found in dry, rocky semi-open habitats.

Species and subspecies

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. Some have been reassigned to new genera.

• Gerrhosaurus auritus – Kalahari plated lizard

• Gerrhosaurus bulsi

Gerrhosaurus flavigularis – yellow-throated plated lizard

• Gerrhosaurus flavigularis fitzsimonsi

• Gerrhosaurus flavigularis flavigularis

• Gerrhosaurus multilineatus

Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus – black-lined plated lizard

• Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus ahlefeldti

• Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus nigrolineatus

• Gerrhosaurus skoogi – desert plated lizard

• Gerrhosaurus typicus – Namaqua plated lizard

References

Further reading

• Bates MF, Tolley KA, Edwards S, Davids Z, Da Silva JM, Branch WR (2013). "A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera". Zootaxa 3750 (5): 465–493. (Broadleysaurus and Matobosaurus, new genera).

• Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. . (Genus Gerrhosaurus, p.178).

• Wiegmann AF (1828). "Beiträge zur Amphibienkunde ". Isis von Oken 21 (4): 364–383. (Gerrhosaurus, new genus, p.375). (in German).