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A class of terrestrial vertebrates, characterized by the lack of hair, feathers, and mammary glands; the skin is covered with scales, they have a three chambered heart and the pleural and peritoneal cavities are continuous. (Source: MGH)

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Haacke WD 1981. The file-snakes of the genus Mehelya in southern Africa with special reference to South West Africa/Namibia. Madoqua 12 (4) 217-224

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The file-snakes of the genus Mehelya_SWA.pdf	888.05 KB

van den Elzen P 1983. Zur Herpetofauna des Brandberges, Südwest-Afrika. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 34 (1-3) 293-309

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Zur Herpetofauna des Brandberges.pdf	1.4 MB

Haacke WD, Odendaal FJ 1981. The distribution of the genus Rhoptropus (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) in the central Namib Desert. Madoqua 12 (4) 199-215

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Stuart CT 1976. A note on Pythonodipsas carinata Günther in South West Africa, with new distribution records. Madoqua 9 (4) 53-54

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Heideman NJL 1991. Oochoristica truncata (Cestoda) infestation of Agama aculeata and A. planiceps (Reptilia: Agamidae) in the Windhoek area. Madoqua 18 (1) 55

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Barker D, Barker T 1995. The maintenance and reproduction of the Dwarf Python of Angola and Namibia. The Vivarium 7 (1) 30-34

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Dwarf Python of Angola and Namibia.pdf	2.62 MB

Mausfeld P, Vences M, Schmitz A, Veith M 2000. First Data on the Molecular Phylogeography of Scincid Lizards of the Genus Mabuya. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17 (1) 11-14

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Molecular Phylogeography of Scincid Lizards.pdf	57.49 KB

van Dijk DE 1977. Habitats and dispersal of southern African Anura. African Zoology 12 (1) 169-181

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Habitats and dispersal of southern African Anura.pdf	392.42 KB

Linder HP, de Klerk HM, Born J, Burgess ND, Fjeldsa J, Rahbek C 2012. The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Biogeography 39 (7) 1189-1205

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02728.x/abstract

Bayless MK 2002. Monitor lizards: a pan-African check-list of their zoogeography (Sauria: Varanidae: Polydaedalus). Journal of Biogeography 29 (12) 1643-1701

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00779.x/abstract

Portik DM, Bauer AM, Jackman TR 2011. Bridging the gap: western rock skinks (Trachylepis sulcata) have a short history in South Africa. Molecular Ecology 20 (8) 1744-1758

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Bridging the gap_ western rock skinks.pdf	319.8 KB

Bauer AM, Good DA 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of the day geckos, genus, Rhoptropus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), of south-western Africa. Journal of Zoology 238 (4) 635-663

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05420.x/abstract

Daza JD, Aurich J, Bauer AM 2012. Anatomy of an enigma: an osteological investigation of the Namibian festive gecko (Narudasia festiva: Gekkonidae: Gekkota). Acta Zoologica 93 (4) 465-486

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Leache AD, Wagner P, Linkem CW, Böhme W, Papenfuss TJ, Chong RA, Lavin BR, Bauer AM, Nielsen SV, Greenbaum E, Rödel M-O, Schmitz A, LeBreton M, Ineich I, Chirio L, Ofori-Boateng C, Eniang EA, Baha El Din S, Lemmon AR, Burbrink FT 2014. A hybrid phylogenetic–phylogenomic approach for species tree estimation in African Agama lizards with applications to biogeography, character evolution, and diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79 215-230

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790314002267

Heideman NJL 1995. The relationship between reproduction, and abdominal fat body and liver condition in Agama aculeata aculeate and Agama planiceps planiceps(Reptilia: Agamidae) males in Windhoek, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 31 (1) 105-113

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196385700535

Makokha JS, Bauer AM, Mayer W, Matthee CA 2007. Nuclear and mtDNA-based phylogeny of southern African sand lizards, Pedioplanis (Sauria: Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44 (2) 622-633

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105579030700139X

Cunningham P 2013. Psammophis namibensis (Broadley, 1975) Predation. 24-25

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Cunningham P 2013. Meroles ctenodactylus (Smith, 1838) Diet. 22-23

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Meroles ctenodactylus.pdf	313.96 KB

Rotschild BM, Schultze H-P, Pellegrini R 2012. List of Scientific and Common Names. Herpetological Osteopathology 379-403

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-0824-6_14

Upton SJ, Freed PS, Burdick DA 1992. Description of the oöcysts of three new species of Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from lizards in Namibia. Systematic Parasitology 22 (1) 33-37

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00009634

Röll B 2005. Variability in a Common Species: The Lygodactylus Capensis Complex from Southern and Eastern Africa (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). African Biodiversity 237-244

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-24320-8_22

Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Avoidance of Environmental Extremes. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 29-51

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_3

Pietruszka RD, Hanrahan SA, Mitchell D, Seely MK 1986. Lizard herbivory in a sand dune environment: the diet of Angolosaurus skoogi. Oecologia 70 (4) 587-591

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379909

Flora, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and amphibians and invertebrates of the Farm Kyffhäuser #18, Maltahöhe District, Namibia.

Website link:http://www.kyffhauser.co.za/index.htm

Robinson MD, Barrows CW 2013. Namibian and North American sand-diving lizards. Journal of Arid Environments 93 116-125

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002297

Methune PA 1913. The Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to Great Namaqualand, 1912-1913. Annals of the Transvaal Museum IV (3) 113-115

Website link:http://content.ajarchive.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/00411752&CISOPTR=854&REC=3

Cunningham PL 2010. Vertebrate fauna & flora associated with the uranium EPL 3496 - Inca and TRS areas.

Cunningham PL 2006. Environmental impact assessment of the Trekkopje Uranium Project, specialist contribution: Vertebrate fauna. 29 pages

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Spriggs A 2001. Namibian savanna woodlands (AT1316).

Website link:https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/at1316

Goldberg K 2001. Zambesian flooded grasslands (AT0907).

Website link:http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0907_full.html

Branch WR South African red data book - Reptiles and Amphibians.

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4744

Fritsch G 1885. Der Weltteil Afrika in Einzeldarstellungen. Südafrika zum Zambesi. I Abteilung.

van Vuuren PAJ 1984. Do Fish Eagles eat reptiles?. African Wildlife 38 (1) 30

Lamb T, Bauer AM 2000. Relationships of the Pachydactylus rugosus group of geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae). African Zoology 35 (1) 55-67

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/35/1/EJC17733

Bauer AM, Lamb T 2002. Phylogenetic relationships among members of the Pachydactylus capensis group of southern African geckos. African Zoology 37 (2) 209-220

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/37/2/EJC17834

Portik DM, Bauer AM, Jackman TR 2010. The phylogenetic affinities of Trachylepis sulcata nigra and the intraspecific evolution of coastal melanism in the western rock skink. African Zoology 45 (2) 147-159

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/45/2/EJC18163

Goldberg SR, Burs CR 2002. Helminths of four species of gekkonid lizards from southern Africa. African Zoology 37 (1) 43-46

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/37/1/EJC17814

Goldberg SR, Burs CR 2002. Helminths of seven species of lacertid lizards from southern Africa. African Zoology 37 (2) 159-164

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/37/2/EJC17839

Robinson MD 1990. Summer field energetics of the Namib desert dune lizard Aporosaura anchietae (Lacertidae), and its relation to reproduction. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (2) 207-215

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216814047_Summer_field_energetics_of_the_Namib_Desert_dune_lizard_Aporosaura_anchietae_Lacertidae_and_its_relation_to_reproduction

Nagy KA, Clarke BC, Seely MK, Mitchell D, Lighton JRB 1991. Water and energy balance in Namibian desert sand-dune lizards Angolosaurus skoogi (Andersson, 1916.). Functional Ecology 5 (6) 731-739

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389535

Goldberg SR 2005. Reproductive cycle of the Namaqua sand lizard, Pedioplanis namaquensis (Squamata: Lacertidae), from southern Africa. African Zoology 41 (1) 147-149

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2006.11407348

Branch WR, Bauer AM, Jackman TR, Heinicke M 2011. A New Species of the Pachydactylus weberi Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Namibrand Reserve, Southern Namibia. Breviora 524 1-15

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Hibbitts TJ, Cooper WE, Whiting MJ 2012. Spatial distribution and activity patterns in African Barking Geckos: Implications for mating system and reproduction. Journal of Herpetology 46 (4) 456-460

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1670/10-336

Evans JS, Eifler DA, Eifler MA 2017. Sand-diving as an escape tactic in the lizard Meroles anchietae. Journal of Arid Environments 140 1-5

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196317300058

2002. Snake endemism.

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2002. Snake diversity.

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South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) Spotted sand lizard.

Website link:https://www.sanbi.org/animal-of-the-week/spotted-sand-lizard/

Wasiolka B, Jeltsch F, Henschel J, Blaum N 2010. Space use of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) under different degradation states. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 96-104

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01085.x/abstract

Murray IW, Fuller A, Lease HM, Mitchell D, Wolf BO, Hetem RS 2015. Low field metabolic rates for geckos of the genus Rhoptropus may not be surprising. Journal of Arid Environments 113 35-42

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314001906

Murray IW, Fuller A, Lease HM, Mitchell D, Hetem RS 2016. Ecological niche separation of two sympatric insectivorous lizard species in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 124 225-232

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196315300446