Ninurta coeruleopunctatus

Ninurta coeruleopunctatus (syn. Cordylus coeruleopunctatus), the blue-spotted girdled lizard or simply blue-spotted lizard, is a monotypic genus that is endemic to southern, coastal South Africa.

Ninurta coeruleopunctatus
At Nature's Valley, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Cordylidae
Genus: Ninurta
Stanley, Bauer, Jackman, Branch, & Mouton, 2011
Species:
N. coeruleopunctatus
Binomial name
Ninurta coeruleopunctatus
(Methuen & Hewitt, 1913)
Synonyms

Zonurus coeruleopunctatus Hewitt and Methuen, 1913
Cordylus coeruleopunctatus (Hewitt and Methuen, 1913)

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