Herero girdled lizard
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Endemic, SVL 70 - 75 mm, max SVL 82 mm
This smallish, finely scaled lizard has a very flattened body and triangular head with rough head shields. The nasals are in contact, separating the rostral and the frontonasal, which is broader than it is long, and touches the loreals. There are six, non-spiny occipitals. The dorsal scales are small and smooth down the back ,and in 30-32 transverseand 27-29 longitudinal rows. The laterals are keeled. The ventrals are smooth (except the outermost rows), in 14 longitudinal rows. There is a pair of feebly enlarged preanal plates. The tail has whorls of large spiny scales. The back is either uniform olive-brown to dark brown, or, more usually, has numerous small scattered, yellow spots that form a vague vertebral band. The belly is yellowish-brown. Habitat : Arid savannah. Range : Hereroland, Namibia.