Sudan plated lizard

Sudan Plated Lizard ( Gerrhosaurus major)

The Sudan Plated Lizard ( Gerrhosaurus major), also called Brown Plated Lizard, lives in rocky areas and dry savannas in the eastern and south-eastern Africa. The lizards are 56 inches long. Their dorsal scales are keeled simply, the belly scales are the ten longitudinal rows. The throat is pink, ocher the tail base. The Sudan Plated Lizard is divided into four heavily distinguishable subspecies, which are perhaps only local color varieties. Some appear black, fine stripes.

Way of life

The habitat of the animals is hot and dry during the dry season prevail average temperatures of 33 ° C, during the rainy season, the temperature 20 to 25 ° C. Sudan Plated Lizards are diurnal and withdraw only during the hottest hours of the day in crevices, termite mounds, or in the open savannah in self-dug burrows. You are not mutually aggressive. They feed on insects, spiders, small vertebrates and plant foods, especially fruits. Kotuntersuchungen showed that African giant snails ( Achatinidae ) play an important role in the diet.

Sudan Plated Lizards bury their two to three eggs in a damp place. The young hatch after 110-145 days and are then been ten inches long.