Genus of lizards
Z. ornatus mating ritualZonosaurus is agenus oflizards in thefamily Gerrhosauridae .[ 1]
Species in the genusZonosaurus are found inMadagascar andSeychelles .[ 2]
The following 17 species are considered to be valid.[ 2]
Zonosaurus aeneus (Grandidier , 1872) – bronze girdled lizardZonosaurus anelanelany Raselimanana ,Raxworthy &Nussbaum , 2000Zonosaurus bemaraha Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000 Zonosaurus boettgeri Steindachner , 1891 – Boettger's girdled lizardZonosaurus brygooi Lang &Böhme , 1990 – Brygoo's girdled lizardZonosaurus haraldmeieri Brygoo & Böhme, 1985 – green zonosaurZonosaurus karsteni (Grandidier, 1869) – Karsten's girdled lizardZonosaurus laticaudatus (Grandidier, 1869) – western girdled lizardZonosaurus madagascariensis (Gray , 1831) – Madagascar girdled lizardZonosaurus maramaintso Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2006 Zonosaurus maximus Boulenger , 1896 – southeastern girdled lizardZonosaurus ornatus (Gray, 1831) – ornate girdled lizardZonosaurus quadrilineatus (Grandidier, 1867) – four-lined girdled lizardZonosaurus rufipes (Boettger , 1881) – red-legged girdled lizardZonosaurus subunicolor (Boettger, 1881) Zonosaurus trilineatus Angel , 1939 – three-lined girdled lizardZonosaurus tsingy Raselimanana, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2000 – tsingy plated lizardNota bene : Abinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other thanZonosaurus .
^a b "Zonosaurus ".Dahms Tierleben . www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gerrhosauridae. ^a b GenusZonosaurus atThe Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org. Boulenger GA (1887).Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ, ... xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Zonosaurus , new genus, p. 127).Raselimanana AP ,Raxworthy CJ ,Nussbaum RA (2000). "A revision of the dwarfZonosaurus Boulenger (Reptilia: Squamata: Cordylidae) from Madagascar, including descriptions of three new species".Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 18 : 1–16.