Pedioplanis   FITZINGER, 1843

Pedioplanis   FITZINGER, 1843


          
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  • Anonymous (2002) -  Opinion 1992 (Case 3085) Lacerta undata A. Smith 1838 (currently Pedioplanis undata; Reptilia, Sauria): specific name conserved by the designation of a neotype. -  Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 59 (1): 60.  

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  • Arnold, E.N. (1986) -  Why copulatory organs provide so many useful taxonomic characters: the origin and maintenance of hemipenial differences in lacertid lizards. -  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 29 (4): 263-281.    

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  • Arnold, E.N. (1991) -  Relationships of the South African lizards assigned to Aporosaura, Meroles and Pedioplanis (Reptilia: Lacertidae). -  Journal of Natural History, London, 25: 783-807.  

  • Arnold, E.N. (2002) -  History and function of scale microornamentation in lacertid lizards. -  Journal of Morphology, 252 (2): 145-169.    

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  • Baard, E.H.W. (1987) -  Pedioplanis lineoocellata (Ocellated Sand lizard): Reproduction. -  Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 33: 34-35.   

  • Baeckens, S. & Edwards, S. & Huyghe, K. & Van Damme, R. (2015) -  Chemical signalling in lizards: an interspecific comparison of femoral pore numbers in Lacertidae. -  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 114 (1): 44-57.    

  • Baeckens, S. & Edwards, S. & Huyghe, K. & Van Damme, R. (2015) -  Chemical signalling in lizards: an interspecific comparison of femoral pore numbers in Lacertidae. -  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 114 (1): 44-57.    

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  • Bates, M.F. (1991) -  New distribution records for amphibians and reptiles from the Cape Province, South Africa. -  Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 39 : 14-18.    

  • Bates, M.F. (1992) -  The Herpetofauna of the Orange Free State: with special emphesis on Biogeographical patterning. -  MSc Thesis, University of Natal, Bloemfontein.     

  • Bates, M.F. (2011) -  Exceptional Contribution to African Herpetology: Wulf Haacke. -  African Herp News, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 53: 11-13  

  • Bates, M.F. & Branch, W.R. & Bauer, A.M. & Burger, M. & Marais, J. & Alexander, G.J. & Villiers, M.S. de (eds.) (2014) -  Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. -  Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Pretoria. 485 pp.  

  • Bauer, A.M. & Branch, W.R. (2001) -  The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park and the adjacent Northern Richtersveld, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. -  Herpetological Natural History, 8 (2): 111-160.  

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  • Bauer, A.M. & Kennedy, A.M. & Lewis, P.J. & Thies, M.L. & Gabadirwe, M. (2009) -  The herpetofauna of Koanaka South and adjacent regions, Ngamiland, Botswana. -  Herpetological Bulletin, 107: 16-26.    

  • Bauer, A.M. & Shea, G. (2006) -  Pedioplanis inornata (Roux, 1907) Plain Sand Lizard. Maximum size. -  African Herp News, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 40: 19.   

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  • Berger-Dell`Mour, H.A.E. & Mayer, W. (1989) -  Parapatric existence of two species of Pedioplanis in the Central Namib. -  The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa, 36: (1): 76.   

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  • Berger-Dell´Mour, H.A.E. & Mayer, W. (1989) -  On the parapatric existence of two species of the Pedioplanis undata group (Reptilia: Sauria: Lacertidae) in the central Namib desert (Southwest Africa) with description of the new species Pedioplanis husabensis. -  Herpetozoa, Wien, 1 (3/4): 83-95.    

  • Bischoff, W. (1991) -  Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie Lacertidae. 4. Die Gattungen Latastia, Meroles, Mesalina, Nucras, Ophisops, Pedioplanis und Philochortus. -  Die Eidechse, Bonn/Bremen, 1991 (4): 17-25.  

  • Blumroeder, J. & Eccard, J.A. & Blaum, N. (2012) -  Behavioural flexibility in foraging mode of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) seems to buffer negative impacts of savanna degradation. -  Journal of Arid Environments, 77: 149–152.    

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  • Boettger, O. (1893) -  Katalog der Reptilien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, I. Teil (Phynchocephalen, Schildkröten, Krokodile, Eidechsen, Chamäleons). -  Gebrüder Knauer, Frankfurt. 140 pp.  

  • Boulenger, G.A. (1887) -  Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. III. Lacertidae. -  London, 1887: I-XII + 1-118.    

  • Boulenger, G.A. (1906) -  Revised List of South African Reptiles and Batrachians. Family Lacertidae. -  Annals of the South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, 5: 473-479.  

  • Boulenger, G.A. (1917) -  Description of a new South African lizard of the genus Eremias. -  Annals of the South African Museum. 217-219.   

  • Boulenger, G.A. (1920) -  Monograph of the Lacertidae. Vol. I. -  British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. London. 352 pp.    

  • Boulenger, G.A. (1921) -  Monograph of the Lacertidae. Vol. II. -  British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. London. 451 pp.  

  • Branch, B. (1988) -  Field guide to snakes and other reptiles of southern Africa. -  Struik Publishers, Cape Town. 328 pp.  

  • Branch, W.R. (1981) -  An annotated checklist of the lizards of the Cape Province, South Africa. -  Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums Natural History, 13 (11): 141-165.    

  • Branch, W.R. (1988) -  Life History Note: Pedioplanis burchelli: Reproduction. -  Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 35 (1): 37-39.  

  • Branch, W.R. (1990) -  The herpetofauna of the cape province, South Africa: New distribution records and zoogeography. -  Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 37 (1): 17-44 .    

  • Branch, W.R. (1998) -  Field guide to the snakes and other reptiles of southern Africa. Third Edition. -  Struik Publishers, Cape Town. 368 pp.  

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  • Branch, W.R. & Tolley, K.A. (2017) -  Oral presentation (Abstract). New lacertids from Angola. -  African Herp News, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 66: 11.  

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  • Brown, R.P. (2005) -  Large Subunit Mitochondrial rRNA Secondary Structures and Site-Specific Rate Variation in Two Lizard Lineages -  Journal of Molecular Evolution, 60 (1): 45-56    

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  • Busack, S.D. & Maxson, L.R. (1987) -  Molecular relationships among Iberian, Moroccan, and South African lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae). -  Amphibia-Reptilia, 8 (4): 383-392.    

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  • Childers, J.L. (2016) -  Phylogenetics and phylogeography of southern African sand lizards, Pedioplanis (Sauria: Lacerrtidae). -  Thesis Villanova University. 138 pp.  

  • Childers, J.L. & Kirchhof, S. & Bauer, A.M. (2021) -  Lizards of a different stripe: phylogenetics of the Pedioplanis undata species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae), with the description of two new species. -  Zoosystematics and Evolution, 97 (1): 249–272.    

  • Conradie, W. (2012) -  Pedioplanis husabensis: Maximum Size and Pedioplanis lineoocellata lineoocellata: Maximum Size. -  Herpetological Bulletin, 2012 (120): 42-43.   

  • Conradie, W. & Douchette-Riise, S. & Vanhooydonck, B. & Engelbrecht, H.M. & Measey, G.J. & Tolley, K.A. (2011) -  Herpetological survey of Rooipoort Nature Reserve, Northern Cape province, South Africa. -  African Herp News, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 53: 35-41.  

  • Conradie, W. & Engelbrecht, H.M. & Herrel, A. & Measey, G.J. & Nielsen, S.V. & Vanhooydonck, B. & Tolley, K.A. (2011) -  Reptile survey of Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve, Limpopo province - South Africa. -  African Herp News, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 55: 6-12.  

  • Conradie, W. & Measey, G.J. & Branch, W.R. & Tolley, K. (2012) -  Revised phylogeny of African sand lizards (Pedioplanis), with the description of two new species from south-western Angola -  African Journal of Herpetology, Johannesburg, South Africa, 61 (2): 1-22.    

  • Cooper Jr., W.E. & Whiting, M.J. (1999) -  Foraging modes in lacertid lizards from southern Africa. -  Amphibia-Reptilia, 20 (3): 299-311.    

  • Cunningham, P.C. & Wassenaar, T. & Henschel, J. (2012) -  Notes on some aspects of the ecology of the Husab Sand Lizard, Pedioplanis husabensis, from Namibia. -  African Herp News, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 56: 1-11.   

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  • Daniels, R.J. (2014) -  Dispersal and Gene Flow in the Southern African Endemic Lacertid, Pedioplanis lineoocellata, Based on Microsatellite and Capture-Mark- Recapture Data. -  Master thesis, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. 147 pp.    

  • Della Rossa, A. & Putti, R. (1995) -  The endocrine pancreas of lacertids: an immunocytochemical study of the genera Pedioplanis and Meroles. -  European journal of histochemistry, 39 (1): 47-58.  

  • Dely, O.G. & Stohl, G. (1982) -  Pileusbeschilderung und phylogenetische Beziehungen innerhalb der Lacertiden. -  Vertebrata Hungarica, Budapest, 21: 85-109.    

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  • Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. (1839) -  Decription of Pedioplanis burchelli.  -  In: “Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles”. Tome 5.Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp.   

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