''Ichnotropis'' is a
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lizard
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Lacertidae
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Species
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in the genus ''Ichnotropis'' are commonly called rough-scaled lizards.
["''Ichnotropis'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.]
Species
The following six species are recognized as being valid.
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Ichnotropis bivittata''
Bocage
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, 1866 - Angolan rough-scaled lizard
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Ichnotropis capensis''
( A. Smith, 1838) - Cape rough-scaled lizard, ornate rough-scaled lizard, Smith's rough-scaled sand lizard
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Ichnotropis chapini''
K.P. Schmidt, 1919
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Ichnotropis grandiceps''
Broadley, 1967 - Caprivi rough-scaled lizard
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Ichnotropis microlepidota''
Marx
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, 1956 - Marx's rough-scaled lizard
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Ichnotropis tanganicana''
Boulenger, 1917 - Tanzanian rough-scaled lizard,
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Nota bene
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Ichnotropis''.
References
Further reading
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Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidae, ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus ''Ichnotropis'', p. 78).
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Branch, Bill (2004). ''Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa''. Third Revised edition, Second Impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. . (Genus ''Ichnotropis'', p. 162).
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Peters W (1854). "''Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden'' ". ''Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlung der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1854: 614–628. (''Ichnotropis'', new genus, p. 617). (in
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Lizard genera
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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