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SpeciesCordylidae
Reptiles

🦎Armadillo girdled lizard

Ouroborus cataphractus (Boie, 1828)

Panssarivyölisko (Ouroborus cataphractus) on vyöliskojen heimoon kuuluva liskolaji. Se elää vain Etelä-Afrikan aavikoilla. Lisko puolustautuu kiertämällä ruumiinsa tiukalle kerälle. Laji luokiteltiin aikaisemmin vyöpyrstöliskojen sukuun (Cordylus), mutta nykyään sitä pidetään oman sukunsa Ouroborus ainoana lajina. Suku on saanut kreikaksi hännänsyöjää tarkoittavan nimensä erikoisen puolustustapansa mukaan. Nimi viittaa ikivanhaan Ouroboros-symboliin, jossa käärme tai lohikäärme syö omaa häntäänsä.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.06 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Everything we know about the Armadillo girdled lizard

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.06 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
30 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Diet
Carnivorous
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
AMB
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.12 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.11 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Armadillo girdled lizard yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyCordylidae
  5. ›genusOuroborus
  6. ›speciesOuroborus cataphractus
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. familyCordylidae
  3. subfamilyCordylinae
  4. genusOuroborus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderScinciformata
  12. superfamilyCordyloidea
  13. familyCordylidae
  14. subfamilyCordylinae
  15. genusOuroborus
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Ouroborus cataphractus (fr), Cordylus cataphractus (pt), Cordylus cataphractus (sr), Panzergürtelschweif (de), Sydafrikansk gördelödla (sv), Cordylus cataphractus (es) … and 16 more languages
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