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thanks a lot Sagca-uct
(I have received an ID under another thread... because nobody replay to this one)

hahaha only about a month too slow

I'm hoping you're the answer to my prayers...or at least SOME of them. Do you know of any list of lizards found in the Kalahari, or can you at least identify posted photos of some taken there? If so,maybe we can start a thread so others won't have so much trouble identifying them. I thank you for any help you may be able to provide.

AFRICAT, please go ahead and post the photo's. I will try my best to help you identify them and if I cannot, I am sure we can find someone who can.

yeah this should be no problem. ive been out in the field so my internet connection is sporadic but post away

@AFRICAT: We got 11 species of lizards in KTP when we were doing a butterfly survey in 2009, so chances are at least some of the ones you got will be easily identified! Please post the photos!

Howzit,

I have some lizard photos from my trip to KNP that I am hoping for some help in identifying.

Is this one Agama Atra, Southern Rock Agama or maybe Tree Agama, Acanthocerus Atricollis. Well, its in a tree but it looks blue to me which makes in more comparable to the rock agama according to my book.



These, I can really figure out. They were all rather small, except for the last one which you might be able to tell the size from the window next to it.

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I try
not a specialist, but learning
2. Gecko
3. rainbow Lizard

and the other ...

Hi Anne-Marie,

Thanks!

edit: Looks like the lizard is

Five-lined or Rainbow skink
Trachylepis margaritifer (or perhaps its Trachylepis quinquetaeniata, I see the common name for both of these)

Thanks for the lead!

Tree agama: Acanthocercus atricollis
Moreau's tropical house gecko: hemidactylus mabouia - this is hard but it has claws which counts out similarly coloured flat geckos.
Rainbow skink: Trachylepis margaritifer - female - looks too well built for a juv male. Unlike in the flat lizards and tree agama where the males are electric blue - the males of the rainbow skinks are orange and the females are the blue ones...
Common stripied skink - Trachylepis striata - a speckled one but one none-the-less

SAHGCA-UCT,

Thank you for the information, that was very good to know.

I have one more lizard picture I am not sure of if anyone knows:



Cheers!

maybe the same like mine, in the previous page, an African Plated Lizard

Close, its a Giant Plated Lizard, Gerrhosaurus validus. Nice big fat male in breeding plumage

Thanks!! Wow, a GIANT lizard!

Please can you help with an ID. I saw this chap at Orpen in March 2010. Size approx 18-20 cm

It looks similar to the very first post on this thread which was ID'd as a Tree Agama but then subsequent tree agamas are quite different.



Thanks