''Karusasaurus jordani'', Jordan's girdled lizard or the Namibian girdled lizard, is a species of lizard in the family

Cordylidae Cordylidae is a family of small- to medium-sized lizards that occur in southern and eastern Africa. They are commonly known as girdled lizards, spinytail lizards, or girdle-tail lizards. Cordylidae is closely related to the family Gerrhosauridae ...

. It is a small, spiny lizard found in

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

Etymology

The specific name, ''jordani'', is in honor of German-born British entomologist

Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan (7 December 1861 – 12 January 1959) was a German-British entomologist. He took a special interest in the taxonomy and classification of butterflies, beetles and fleas. Jordan was a founder of the International Con ...

.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Cordylus jordani'', p. 136).

References

Karusasaurus Reptiles of Namibia Endemic fauna of Namibia Reptiles described in 1936 Taxa named by Hampton Wildman Parker {{lizard-stub