LONDON: Researchers have discovered a spectacularly coloured new species of flat lizard in Africa and named it after renowned British naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
A team of scientists, led by Dr Martin Whiting of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, named the lizard Platysaurus attenboroughi, after the 89-year-old broadcaster and naturalist.
Flat lizards belong to a lizard family, the Cordylidae, which is found only in Africa. While the majority of species in this family are live-bearing and most are brown or black (with some exceptions), the flat lizards stand out: they lay eggs and all are colourful.
The new species, from Richtersveld of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and the Fish River Canyon region of southern Namibia, was formerly confused with P capensis from the Kamiesberg region of Namaqualand, South Africa.
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