Girdled identifies various animal
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Girdled lizards
Lizards from the genus ''
Cordylus
The genus ''Cordylus'' (Sauria: Cordylidae) includes a wide variety of species of small to medium spiny lizards from Africa, collectively called girdle-tailed lizards or girdled lizards. All are diurnal and ovoviviparous (live-bearing, without she ...
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Angolan girdled lizard (''Cordylus angolensis''), also known as the Angolan spiny-tailed lizard
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Black girdled lizard (''Cordylus niger''), restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a population near Langebaan
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Cape Girdled Lizard (''Cordylus cordylus''), indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa
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Dwarf Karoo girdled lizard (''Cordylus aridus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Giant girdled lizard
The sungazer (''Smaug giganteus'', syn. ''Cordylus giganteus''), also known as the giant girdled lizard, giant dragon lizard, ouvolk, or giant zonure, is the largest species of the Cordylidae, a family of lizards from sub-Saharan Africa.B ...
(''Cordylus giganteus''), the sungazer, giant spiny-tailed lizard, giant zonure, the largest species of girdled lizard
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Lawrence's girdled lizard (''Cordylus lawrenci''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Limpopo girdled lizard (''Cordylus jonesii'') live along South Africa's border with Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
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Machadoe's girdled lizard (''Cordylus machadoi''), a flattened girdled lizard from northwestern Namibia
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Mclachlan's girdled lizard (''Cordylus mclachlani'') is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Mozambique girdled lizard
The Mozambique girdled lizard or flame-bellied armadillo lizard (''Smaug mossambicus'') is a large, flattened, girdled lizard found on Mount Gorongosa in Mozambique and low elevations in the Chimanimani Mountains at the border of Zimbabwe and Mo ...
(''Cordylus mossambicus''), a large, flattened girdled lizard found in the Gorongosa Mountains in Mozambique
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Rhodesian girdled lizard
The Rhodesian girdled lizard (''Cordylus rhodesianus'') is one of three species of very flattened girdled lizards from Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique. The other two species are '' Cordylus nyikae'' and ''Cordylus meculae''. They are found liv ...
(''Cordylus rhodesianus''), exported from Mozambique for the pet trade
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Transvaal girdled lizard (''Cordylus vittifer''), a very flattened girdled lizard from northeastern South Africa, Swaziland, and southeastern Botswana
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Ukinga girdled lizard (''Cordylus ukingensis''), a poorly known species of girdled lizard from central Tanzania
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Warren's girdled lizard (''Cordylus warreni''), a relatively large flattened lizard from the Lebombo Mountains in northeastern South Africa and eastern Swaziland
Other lizards
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Armadillo girdled lizard
The armadillo girdled lizard (''Ouroborus cataphractus''), www.reptile-database.org. also commonly known as the armadillo lizard, the armadillo spiny-tailed lizard, and the golden-armadillo lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. ...
(''Ouroborus cataphractus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Blue-spotted girdled lizard
''Ninurta coeruleopunctatus'' (syn. ''Cordylus coeruleopunctatus''), the blue-spotted girdled lizard or simply blue-spotted lizard, is a monotypic genus that is Endemism, endemic to southern, coastal South Africa. The ''Ninurta'' ''coeruleopuncta ...
(''Ninurta coeruleopunctatus''), endemic to southern, coastal South Africa
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Madagascar girdled lizard or Madagascar plated lizard (''Zonosaurus madagascariensis''), a species of lizard in the family Gerrhosauridae
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Prickly girdled lizard or spiny crag lizard (''Pseudocordylus spinosus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
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Zoutpansberg girdled lizard (''Smaug depressus''), a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae
Other animals
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Blue girdled angelfish (''Pomacanthus navarchus''), a marine angelfish from the Indo-Pacific region
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Black-girdled barbet
The black-girdled barbet (''Capito dayi'') is a species of bird in the family Capitonidae, the New World barbets. It is found in Brazil and Bolivia.
Taxonomy and systematics
Since its description in 1916, the black-girdled barbet has almost ...
(''Capito dayi''), a bird in the family Ramphastidae, found in Bolivia and Brazil
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Girdled Cardinalfish (''Taeniamia zosterophora''), native to the western Pacific Ocean from Indonesia to Vanuatu and from the Ryukyus to Australia
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Girdled wrasse (''Notolabrus cinctus''), a fish of the genus ''Notolabrus'', found around the South Island of New Zealand
See also
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Girdle
A belt without a buckle, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle in various contexts, especially historical ones, where girdles were a very common part of everyday clothing from antiquity until perhaps the 15th century, especially for w ...
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Girdling
Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the circumferential removal or injury of the bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes also the xylem) of a branch or trunk of a woody plant. Girdling prevents th ...
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Girdled grapes
Girdled
Girdled identifies various animal species:
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Girdled lizards
Lizards from the genus ''Cordylus''.
* Angolan girdled lizard (''Cordylus angolensis''), also known as the Angolan spiny-tailed lizard
* Black girdled lizard (''Cordylus niger' ...