Cordylus macropholis
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cordylus-macropholis-288-2919907
title:
Cordylus macropholis
text:
Cordylus macropholis, the large-scaled girdled lizard, is a small (55-77 mm) lizard endemic to the west coast of South Africa. They spend most of their time on and around a single plant species, Euphorbia caput-medusae which only occupies around 5% of the vegetation present. It is thought that they restrict themselves to these plants because they provide safer hiding places than most other shrubs, house a large range of invertebrate prey, and provide good thermal microhabitats. They can addition
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of lizard
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordylus_macropholis
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date modified:
2022-07-30T18:30:28Z
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