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Lizards - Armadillo girdle-tailed lizard (Cordylus cataphractus) -- Ouroborus cataphractus
Subject: Lizards - Armadillo girdle-tailed lizard (Cordylus cataphractus) -- Ouroborus cataphractus
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Lizards - Armadillo girdle-tailed lizard (Cordylus cataphractus) -- Ouroborus cataphractus


Armadillo Lizard (Cordylus cataphractus) is a spinytailed lizard endemic to desert areas of southern Africa. It is also known as the Armadillo Girdled Lizard or the Armadillo Spiny-tailed Lizard. This brown-coloured lizard has a distinctive defensive posture, in which it grabs its tail and curls into a ring. Its size ranges from 16 to 21 cm (6½ to 8½ in) in length. In South Africa, trade in Armadillo Lizards is illegal.


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The armadillo girdled lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus), also commonly known as the armadillo lizard, the armadillo spiny-tailed lizard, and the golden-armadillo lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is endemic to desert areas along the western coast of South Africa. In 2011, it was moved to its own genus based on molecular phylogeny, but formerly it was included in the genus Cordylus. Order: Squamata > Family: Cordylidae > Genus: Ouroborus > Species: Ouroborus cataphractus

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i have the same

spiny lizard
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