Combinations

• Cordylus (Hemicordylus) capensis Smith, 1838: 32 [original combination]
• Zonurus capensis — Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 360 [name combination]
• [Cordylus capensis] — FitzSimons, 1943: 436 [name combination, by implication]
• Pseudocordylus capensis — Loveridge, 1944: 70 [name combination]
• Hemicordylus capensis — Stanley et al., 2011: 66 [name combination]

Synonyms

• Zonurus robertsi Van Dam 1921: 241; plate IV [synonymized by Herselman, Mouton & Van Wyk (1992: 116)]

Holotype: TM 3747, adult indet.

Type locality: “Klaver, Van Rhynsdorp District, C.P. [=Cape Province, now Western Cape Province]”, South Africa.

Paratype (1): TM 3748, subadult indet., same locality as holotype.

Primary references

• Smith, A. 1838. Contributions to South African Zoology. Magazine of Natural History 2(1): 30–33. BHL Reference page. 

• Smith, A. 1838–1849. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; Consisting Chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected During an Expedition Into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836; Fitted Out by “The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa.” Published Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. Reptilia. Vol. 2. Smith, Elder and Co.: London. [100] + 28 pp., pls. 1–78. BHL Reference page. 

• Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. VIII + 854 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Van Dam, G.P.F. 1921. Descriptions of new species of Zonurus, and notes on the species of Zonurus occurring in the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7(4): 239–243. BHL Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoirs 1: 1–528. Reference page. 

• Loveridge, A. 1944. Revision of the African lizards of the family Cordylidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 95: 1–118, pls. 1–12. BHL Reference page. 

• Herselman, Y.M., Mouton, P. Le F.N. & Van Wyk, J.H. 1992. The status of the races of the graceful crag lizard, Pseudocordylus capensis, from South Africa. Amphibia-Reptilia 13(2): 109–119. DOI: 10.1163/156853892X00300 Reference page. 

• Stanley, E.L., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R., Branch, W.R. & Mouton, P. Le F.N. 2011. Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(1): 53–70. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.024 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2020. Hemicordylus capensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 September 2017.