Girdled identifies various animal
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Girdled lizards
Lizards from the genus ''
Cordylus
The genus ''Cordylus'' (Sauria: Cordylidae) includes a wide variety of species of small to medium spiny lizards from Africa, collectively called girdle-tailed lizards or girdled lizards. All are diurnal and ovoviviparous (live-bearing, without she ...
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Angolan girdled lizard (''Cordylus angolensis''), also known as the Angolan spiny-tailed lizard
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Black girdled lizard
''Cordylus niger'', the black girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a second, isolated population near Langebaan.
Black girdled lizards inhabit rocky outcrops on Table Mountain, South Afr ...
(''Cordylus niger''), restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a population near Langebaan
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Cape Girdled Lizard
''Cordylus cordylus'', the Cape girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa, where it inhabits crags, rocky outcrops and mountain summits. They evade predators by wedging themselves firmly in ro ...
(''Cordylus cordylus''), indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa
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Dwarf Karoo girdled lizard (''Cordylus aridus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Giant girdled lizard
The sungazer (''Smaug giganteus'', syn. ''Cordylus giganteus''), also known as the giant girdled lizard, giant dragon lizard, ouvolk, or giant zonure, is the largest species of the Cordylidae, a family of lizards from sub-Saharan Africa.Bill Bra ...
(''Cordylus giganteus''), the sungazer, giant spiny-tailed lizard, giant zonure, the largest species of girdled lizard
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Lawrence's girdled lizard (''Cordylus lawrenci''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Limpopo girdled lizard (''Cordylus jonesii'') live along South Africa's border with Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
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Machadoe's girdled lizard (''Cordylus machadoi''), a flattened girdled lizard from northwestern Namibia
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Mclachlan's girdled lizard (''Cordylus mclachlani'') is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Mozambique girdled lizard
The Mozambique girdled lizard or flame-bellied armadillo lizard (''Smaug mossambicus'') is a large, flattened, girdled lizard found on Mount Gorongosa in Mozambique and low elevations in the Chimanimani Mountains at the border of Zimbabwe and Mo ...
(''Cordylus mossambicus''), a large, flattened girdled lizard found in the Gorongosa Mountains in Mozambique
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Rhodesian girdled lizard (''Cordylus rhodesianus''), exported from Mozambique for the pet trade
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Transvaal girdled lizard
The Transvaal girdled lizard or Reichenow's spiny-tailed lizard (''Cordylus vittifer'') is a very flattened girdled lizard from northeastern South Africa, Eswatini, and southeastern Botswana. It prefers rock outcrops in open grassland and feeds ...
(''Cordylus vittifer''), a very flattened girdled lizard from northeastern South Africa, Swaziland, and southeastern Botswana
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Ukinga girdled lizard (''Cordylus ukingensis''), a poorly known species of girdled lizard from central Tanzania
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Warren's girdled lizard
Warren's girdled lizard (''Smaug warreni'') is a species of relatively large, flattened lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to Southern Africa.
Etymology
The specific name, ''warreni'', is in honour of British zoologist Ernest ...
(''Cordylus warreni''), a relatively large flattened lizard from the Lebombo Mountains in northeastern South Africa and eastern Swaziland
Other lizards
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Armadillo girdled lizard
The armadillo girdled lizard (''Ouroborus cataphractus''), www.reptile-database.org. also commonly known as the armadillo lizard, the armadillo spiny-tailed lizard, and the golden-armadillo lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. ...
(''Ouroborus cataphractus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Blue-spotted girdled lizard
''Ninurta coeruleopunctatus'' ( syn. ''Cordylus coeruleopunctatus''), the blue-spotted girdled lizard or simply blue-spotted lizard, is a monotypic genus that is endemic to southern, coastal South Africa
South Africa, officially the Repub ...
(''Ninurta coeruleopunctatus''), endemic to southern, coastal South Africa
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Madagascar girdled lizard
The Madagascar girdled lizard or Madagascar plated lizard (''Zonosaurus madagascariensis'') is a species of lizard in the family Gerrhosauridae. It is found in Madagascar, some outlying islands (Nosy Be and the nearby islands; Grande Glorieuse) a ...
or Madagascar plated lizard (''Zonosaurus madagascariensis''), a species of lizard in the family Gerrhosauridae
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Prickly girdled lizard
The spiny crag lizard or prickly girdled lizard (''Pseudocordylus spinosus'') is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae.
Range
It is found in the northern Drakensberg escarpment of Lesotho and adjacent South Africa
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or spiny crag lizard (''Pseudocordylus spinosus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Zoutpansberg girdled lizard
Zoutpansberg girdled lizard (''Smaug depressus'') is a species of the genus '' Smaug''.The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Smaug&species=depressus&search_param=( This species is only found on and around the So ...
(''Smaug depressus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
Other animals
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Blue girdled angelfish
''Pomacanthus navarchus'', the blue-girdled angelfish or majestic angelfish, is a marine angelfish from the Indo-Pacific region. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. ''P. navarchus'' is one of the smallest of the larger species ...
(''Pomacanthus navarchus''), a marine angelfish from the Indo-Pacific region
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Black-girdled barbet
The black-girdled barbet (''Capito dayi'') is a species of bird in the family Capitonidae, the New World barbets. It is found in Brazil and Bolivia.
Taxonomy and systematics
Since its description in 1916, the black-girdled barbet has almost ...
(''Capito dayi''), a bird in the family Ramphastidae, found in Bolivia and Brazil
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Girdled Cardinalfish
''Taeniamia zosterophora'', the girdled cardinalfish, is a species of cardinalfish native to the western Pacific Ocean from Indonesia to Vanuatu and from the Ryukyus to Australia. It is in the genus '' Taeniamia'', which was described in 2013.Fr ...
(''Taeniamia zosterophora''), native to the western Pacific Ocean from Indonesia to Vanuatu and from the Ryukyus to Australia
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Girdled wrasse
The girdled wrasse, ''Notolabrus cinctus'', is a species of wrasse native to the waters around the South Island and southeastern North Island of New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands
The Chatham Islands ( ) (Moriori: ''Rēkohu'', ' ...
(''Notolabrus cinctus''), a fish of the genus ''Notolabrus'', found around the South Island of New Zealand
See also
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Girdle
A belt, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle if it is worn as part of Christian liturgical vestments, or in certain historical, literary or sports contexts.
Girdles are used to close a cassock in Christian denominations, including th ...
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Girdling
Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the complete removal of the Bark (botany), bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes going into the xylem) from around the entire circumference of either a branch or tru ...
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Girdled grapes
Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the complete removal of the bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes going into the xylem) from around the entire circumference of either a branch or trunk of a woody ...
Girdled
Girdled identifies various animal species:
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Girdled lizards
Lizards from the genus ''Cordylus''.
* Angolan girdled lizard (''Cordylus angolensis''), also known as the Angolan spiny-tailed lizard
*Black girdled lizard (''Cordylus niger'' ...