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Cordylus niger
7 cm lizard - black medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula They are spiny, flat, and pitch black in colour. Their colour helps these unique lizards to absorb sufficient heat from the sun, in what is one of the darkest, least sunny parts of South Africa.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/138...
I saw both in the same area but not together? could it be the same species?
Thank you John G, but I think your ID similar but not the same one I saw.
thanks Berndt, very very close, but this one did not have any spots as I see on web info, and even though you suggest a very rare ID, I also do not think it was that one.... ill keep an eye out for it though!
Johan, I saw this lizard in exactly the area and habitat your link explained and thank you once again for your ID help!
Spotted on Sep 16, 2012
Submitted on Sep 16, 2012
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