Vital Statistics
- Latin Name
- Gerrhosaurus Nigrolineatus
- Length_F
- 140 - 175 mm
- Length_M
- 140 - 175 mm
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gerrhosauridae
- Description
- A large, thick-bodied plated lizard with a large, robust head. The back is reddish-brown with well-defined, black-edged, yellow dorsolateral stripes, and often with yellow streaks down the backbone. The belly is cream to yellow-white.
- Class
- Reptilia
- Distribution
- Northern Province and Mpumalanga, through to Zimbabwe and adjacent regions to Northern Namibia, reaching Gabon and the lower Congo.
- Breeding
- The female lays 4 - 9 eggs in an abandoned rodent burrow, that may be reused subsequently. Incubation takes 70 - 80 days; hatchlings measure 160 - 180 mm.
- Diet
- Grasshoppers and beetles, but snails are also taken.
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