Central Namibia (Namib-Naukluft National Park to Windhoek). 

Species:

Pedioplanis undata  (SMITH, 1838)

Synonyms:

Lacerta undata  A. SMITH, 1838

Common names:

Western Sand Lizard (English)
Westlicher-Wüstenrenner (German)

Types:

Neotype: NMW 318886 (designated by MAYER & BÖHME 2000)

Terra Typica:

Designated (MAYER & BÖHME 2000) Windhoek, Central Namibia.


Taxonomic notes:

Genaue Vergleiche und das überraschende Auffinden der Typen bewiesen, dass der Name seit ca. 150 Jahren falsch interprätiert worden ist. Es handelt sich dabei um jenes Taxon, das derzeit als P. lineoocellata pulchella bezeichnet wird. Um den seit ca. 150 Jahren üblichen Gebrauch des Namens zu konservieren wurde ein entsprechender Antrag an die Nomenklaturkommission gestellt, dem entsprochen worden ist.

WERNER MAYER


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Smith, A. (1838) -  Description of Pedioplanis undata. -  In: “Contributions to the Natural History of Southern Africa”. Magazine of natural history, London, 2 (14): 92-94.   

  • Mayer, W. & Böhme, W. (2000) -  Case 3085: Lacerta undata A. Smith, 1838 (Currently Pedioplanis undata; Reptilia, Sauria): proposed conservation of the specific name by the designation of a neotype. -  Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 57 (2): 100-102.  

  • Makokha, J.S. & Bauer, A.M. & Mayer, W. & Matthee, C.A. (2007) -  Nuclear and mtDNA-based phylogeny of southern African sand lizards, Pedioplanis (Sauria: Lacertidae). -  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 44 (2): 622-633.    

  • Conradie, W. & Measey, G.J. & Branch, W.R. & Tolley, K. (2012) -  Revised phylogeny of African sand lizards (Pedioplanis), with the description of two new species from south-western Angola -  African Journal of Herpetology, Johannesburg, South Africa, 61 (2): 1-22.    

  • Engleder, A. & Haring, E. & Kirchhof, S. & Mayer, W. (2013) -  Multiple nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences provide new insights into the phylogeny of South African Lacertids (Lacertidae, Eremiadinae). -  Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Berlin, 51 (2): 132-143.    

  • Kirchhof, S. & Hetem, R.S. & Lease, H.M. & Miles, D.B. & Mitchell, D. & Müller, J. & Rödel, M.-O. & Sinervo, B. & Wassenaar, T. & Murray, I.W. (2017) -  Thermoregulatory behavior and high thermal preference buffer impact of climate change in a Namib Desert lizard. -  Ecosphere, 8 (12): 1-22.     

  • Childers, J.L. & Kirchhof, S. & Bauer, A.M. (2021) -  Lizards of a different stripe: phylogenetics of the Pedioplanis undata species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae), with the description of two new species. -  Zoosystematics and Evolution, 97 (1): 249–272.    

 
 
 
 
 

Pedioplanis undata  © 2014 Jackie Childers