Sudan shield lizard
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Sudan shield lizard ( Broadleysaurus major ) |
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| Broadleysaurus | ||||||||||||
| Bates & Tolley , 2013 | ||||||||||||
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| Broadleysaurus major | ||||||||||||
| ( Duméril , 1851) |
The Sudan shield lizard ( Broadleysaurus major ), also known as the brown shield lizard , lives in rocky areas and dry savannas in eastern and south-eastern Africa . The lizards are 56 centimeters long. Your back scales are simply keeled, the scales on the stomach are in ten longitudinal rows. The throat is pink, the underside of the tail ocher. The Sudan shield lizard is divided into four indistinguishable subspecies, which are perhaps just local color varieties. Some black, fine vertical stripes appear.
Way of life
The habitat of the animals is hot and dry, with average temperatures of 33 ° C during the dry season and 20 to 25 ° C during the rainy season. Sudan shield lizards are diurnal and only retreat to self-dug earth structures during the hottest hours of the day in crevices, termite burrows or in the open savannah. They are not aggressive towards one another. They feed on insects, spiders, small vertebrates, and vegetable foods, especially fruit. Examinations of the faeces showed that African giant snails (Achatinidae) also play an important role in the diet.
Sudan shielded lizards bury their two to three eggs in a damp place. The young hatch after 110 to 145 days and are then ten centimeters long.
literature
- Manfred Rogner: Echsen 2 , Ulmer Verlag, ISBN 3-8001-7253-4