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Wahlbergs Velvet Gecko
African Reptiles guide Information: Description : A large velvet gecko. The back is light to dark grey-brown, usually with irregular pale and dark crossbars, and
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Variable Skink
African Reptiles guide Information: A medium-sized skink with a rounded snout and a window in each lower lid. Colouration is variable; the back may be blackish, olive, pale brown or red-brown, with or without black spots. There's always a distinct, white lateral stripe down the backb
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Vine Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: This extremely thin snake has a lance-shaped head and large eyes with keyhole-shaped pupils. The body scales are feebly keeled, in 19 oblique rows at midbody. The tail is very long. The body is twig-coloured. ...
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Striped Skink
African Reptiles guide Information: This medium-sized skink has a window in each of the lower eyelids. The ear openings are lobed. Colouration differs between the subspecies. In northern populations the head of breeding males are orange-brown...
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Spotted Thick Toed Gecko
African Reptiles guide Information: A small, gentle gecko with a fat body and a rounded snout. The back is grey to greyish-brown, with 4 rows of elongated, blackish spots that are not white-edged and occasionally fuse into irregular...
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Spotted Sandveld Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: A large sandveld lizard, usually with a spotted back and an orange-brown tail. The back is light brown to reddish-brown, with a series of pale spots that may be black-edged...
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Spotted Bush Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: A very slender snake with a flat, distinct head and a long tail. The body is bright green to olive, usually with dark spots on the bars on the forebody, becoming grey-bronze towards the rear...
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Spekes Hinged Tortoise
African Reptiles guide Information: Description : A medium-sized tortoise with a smooth, depressed carapace with a well developed hinge. The shell of juveniles has a zonary pattern with concentric light and dark zones...
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Southern Tree Agama
African Reptiles guide Information: A very large agama with a broad head. Breeding males have a dull blue to bluish back, with bright blue (anteriorly) to straw-yellow (posteriorly) spines and a bright cobalt-blue head...
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Serrated Hinged Terrapin
African Reptiles guide Information: The largest hinged terrapin. The carapace and bridge are uniform black in colour. The plastron is yellow-centered, with a sharply defined, black, angular pattern around the edge. The skin of the neck and limbs is pale olive-grey. ...
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Rough scaled Plated Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: A large, stout lizard, with a short head and large eyes. The back is straw- coloured to light brown. The chin and throat are light straw to cream, and the belly is smoky-grey to light brown...
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Whitethroated Monitor
African Reptiles guide Information: A very large, stout lizard with strong, stocky limbs and sharp claws. The head has a bulbous snout, with slit-like nostrils nearer to the eyes than to the end of the snout. The back is dark...
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Puff Adder
African Reptiles guide Information: This thick, heavily built snake has a large, flattened, triangular head and large nostrils which point vertically upwards. The body is yellow-brown to light brown, with black, pale-edged chevrons...
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Pan Hinged Terrapin
African Reptiles guide Information: A small hinged terrapin with a rounded, smooth shell and a small plastral hinge; no axillary. The head is large, with a blunt snout and smooth beak; there are usually 2 tentacles under the chin...
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Ornate Sandveld Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: A large sandveld lizard with a blotched pattern in adults. Juveniles are blackish-brown on the back with 3 white longitudinal stripes. Adults are brown dorsally with irregular black blotches...
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Olive Grass Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: A large, robust snake with a non-flattened snout and a long tail. The back is olive-brown (paler towards the tail), sometimes with black-edged scales, forming thin black lines or with scattered...
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Leopard Tortoise
African Reptiles guide Information: They may exceed 700 mm in length and 40 kg in weight. The carapace is domed and not hinged, with scutes only faintly raised. The nuchal is absent. The beak is sometimes hooked, is unicuspid and often serrated. ...
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Red Lipped Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: A small snake with a broad, obvious head and a short tail. The scales are in 19 rows at midbody and are dull; the head is iridescent when the skin is freshly shed. The back is olive...
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Giant Plated Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: A large lizard with a flattened head and body. In adults, the back is dark brown to black. The throat is dirty white, and the belly is light brown. Juveniles are black...
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Flap Neck Chameleon
African Reptiles guide Information: A large chameleon with a continuous crest of small, white, triangular tubercles on the throat and belly. Colouration varies, from pale yellow through green shades to brown. The belly crest...
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