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  Cordylidae - Girdled Lizards, Grass Lizards, Crag and Flat Lizards
The vast majority of the species are furthermore confined to the southern subcontinent, the few exceptions being found further to the northeast as far as Ethiopia and Congo.
Four limbs are usually present, although these are greatly reduced in Chamaesaura.
Of the four genera, Chamaesaura forms one subfamily, the Chamaesaurinae.
www.cyberlizard.plus.com /Cordylidae.htm   (429 words)

  
 Cordylidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Scales are arranged in circles around their body.
Chamaesaura has extremely reduced limbs and a snakelike body.
(2001) found that Chamaesaura, Pseudocordylus, and Cordylus are paraphyletic.
www.embl-heidelberg.de /~uetz/families/Cordylidae.html   (482 words)

  
 AMNH Scientific Publications: Item 2246/2927
"Mitochondrial DNA sequences were obtained for 16 species representing all nominal genera of Cordylidae (Platysaurus, Chamaesaura, Cordylus, and Pseudocordylus).
Within the ovoviviparous group Cordylus is paraphyletic with respect to Chamaesaura and Pseudocordylus.
The three species of Chamaesaura and the seven species of Pseudocordylus are transferred to Cordylus to render a monophyletic taxonomy"--P. Description:
hdl.handle.net /2246/2927   (154 words)

  
 Squamata Verlag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
And in the Appendix Cordylosaurus subtessellatus, Gerrhosaurus flavigularis, Gerrhosaurus typicus, Tetradactylus seps, Tetradactylus tetradactylus, Chamaesaura a.
Chamaesaura anquina [sic!] — birth of live young in captivity.
— Herpetologica, 55 (4): 556-573 [#05398; Cordylidae: Chamaesaura, Cordylus and Pseudocordylus from literature]
www.squamata.de /body_c_bib_b.html   (6075 words)

  
 Comments on the EIA/CMP for the proposed Greenstone Quarry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Some of these species are grassland specialists while others are rupicolous and any disturbance in the area will reduce their habitat and numbers.
Examples are Scelotes mirus, Chamaesaura aenea, Lygodactylus ocellatus, Pseudocordylus melanotus, Nucras lalandii and what in all probability constitutes a new species of Dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion sp.).
The Dwarf chameleon is restricted to Afromontane forests.
www.ecs.co.sz /malolotja_wardenscomments.htm   (3541 words)

  
 Ian Cornelius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This study examined the morphology of subsaharan Africa's four cordylid lizard genera: Chamaesaura, Cordylus, Pseudocordylus and Platysaurus.
The study's specimens consisted of 132 individuals, representing 27 species, lent from the University of Stellenbosch and from the Transvaal Museum of Natural History in Pretoria, South Africa.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Washington University; 2Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
www.nslc.wustl.edu /Research/HHMI/99fellows/ian_cornelius.html   (349 words)

  
 research
This group is interesting because it is not rich in species or genera (4 and 40, respectively); nonetheless, it is quite diverse ecologically and morphologically, ranging from heavily armored and stocky lizards such as Cordylus giganteus and C.
cataphractus, to agile lizards so flat they look like they have been stepped upon (Platysaurus), to species that are nearly limbless and essentially function as snakes (Chamaesaura).
All of these studies combine phylogenetic and field approaches.
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de /b-online/ibc99/wustl/faculty/losos/research.html   (1746 words)

  
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www.activeware.com /guestbook/sapindaship/fibroadenia/Mahayanism/Clarkia   (308 words)

  
 Anoestrum
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www.oldach.net /food/baetylus/progressive/afterlove   (264 words)

  
 Polythecial boodleism
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www.oldach.net /food/chromatid/meio/Menic   (220 words)

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