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Mozambique girdled lizard
Male Smaug mossambicus
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Family:
Cordylidae
Genus:
Smaug
Species:
S. mossambicus
Binomial name
Smaug mossambicus
(Fitzsimons, 1958)
Synonyms
Cordylus mossambicusFitzsimons, 1958
The Mozambique girdled lizard or flame-bellied armadillo lizard (Smaug mossambicus) is a large, flattened, girdled lizard found on Mount Gorongosa in Mozambique and low elevations in the Chimanimani Mountains at the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It lives in rock outcrops in grasslands and dry, wooded mountain slopes.
The Mozambique girdled lizard is also called the Gorongosa girdled lizard or Cordylus gorongosa (not a valid taxon name). Individuals are exported through Mozambique for the pet trade. They eat a wide variety of small insects (especially beetles and grasshoppers), millipedes, spiders, and occasional small vertebrates.
^Farooq, H.; Conradie, W.; Verburgt, L. (2019). "Smaug mossambicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T110167750A110167783. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T110167750A110167783.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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