Lizards

We have some of the most interesting lizards around the East Rand. Most people get to see our local Spotted Rock Skink, Common Dwarf Gecko or maybe the Tropical House Gecko.

We have no less than 15 species of lizards around the East Rand:

From the larger Water Monitor all the way through to the minute little Wahlberg’s Snake-eyed Skink. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did photographing them

Water Monitor, also called the Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus)

 

Transvaal Girdled Lizard (Cordylus vittifer)

 

Southern Rock Agama (Agama atra)

 

Eastern Ground Agama (Agama aculeata distantii)

 

Flap-necked Chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis)

 

Yellow-throated Plated Lizard (Gerrhosaurus flavigularis)

 

Delalande’s Sandveld Lizard (Nucras lalandii)

 

Cape Skink (Trachylepis capensis)

 

Spotted/Speckled Rock Skink (Trachylepis punctatissima)

 

Variable Skink (Trachylepis varia)

 

Wahlberg’s Snake-eyed Skink (Panaspis wahlbergi)

 

Thin-tailed Legless Skink (Acontias gracilicauda)

 

Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia)

 

Cape Thick-toed Gecko (Pachydactylus capensis)

 

Transvaal Thick-toed Gecko (Pachydactylus affinis)

 

Common/Cape Dwarf Gecko (Lygodactylus capensis)

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