Sudan plated lizard

Sudan plated lizard
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gerrhosauridae
Genus: Broadleysaurus
Bates & Tolley, 2013
Species:
B. major
Binomial name
Broadleysaurus major
(Duméril, 1851)

The Sudan plated lizard (Broadleysaurus major),[2] also known as the western plated lizard, great plated lizard, or Broadley's rough-scaled plated lizard, is a medium-sized, diurnal African lizard.

  1. ^ Branch, W.R.; Howell, K.; Ngalason, W.; Msuya, C.A. (2021). "Broadleysaurus major". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021. IUCN: e.T13152261A13152266. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  2. ^ Bates, Michael; Tolley, Krystal; Edwards, Shelley; Davids, Zoë; da Silva, Jessica; Branch, William (2013-12-23). "A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera". Zootaxa. 3750: 465–493. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3750.5.3. PMID 25113712.