Mitchell's flat lizard (Platysaurus mitchelli) is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to Southeast Africa.
Etymology The specific name, mitchelli, is in honor of naturalist Bernard Lindley Mitchell of the Department of Game, Fish, and Tsetse Control in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the 1940s.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Platysaurus mitchelli, p. 179).
Geographic range Platysaurus mitchelli is found in Malawi and Mozambique.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Platysaurus mitchelli is rocky areas, in both forest and grassland, at elevations of .
Behavior Platysaurus mitchelli shelters in cracks and crevices of rocks, emerging to forage.
Reproduction Platysaurus mitchelli is oviparous.
References
Further reading 303 pp. (in German)
Loveridge, A. (1953). "Zoological Results of a Fifth Expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 110 (3): 142–322. (Platysaurus mitchelli, new species, pp. 234–237). Stanley, Edward L.; Bauer, Aaron M.; Jackman, Todd R.; Branch, William R.; Mouton, P. Le Fras 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.
External links Taxonomy and range of Platysaurus mitchelli at ZipcodeZoo.com