Ichnotropis

Ichnotropis capensis in Limpopo, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Subfamily:	Lacertinae
Genus:	Ichnotropis W. Peters, 1854^[1]

Ichnotropis is a genus of African lizards in the family Lacertidae. Species in the genus Ichnotropis are commonly called rough-scaled lizards.^[2]

Species

The following six species are recognized as being valid.^[2]

Ichnotropis bivittata Bocage, 1866 - Angolan rough-scaled lizard
Ichnotropis capensis (A. Smith, 1838) - Cape rough-scaled lizard, ornate rough-scaled lizard, Smith's rough-scaled sand lizard
Ichnotropis chapini K.P. Schmidt, 1919
Ichnotropis grandiceps Broadley, 1967 - Caprivi rough-scaled lizard
Ichnotropis microlepidota Marx, 1956 - Marx's rough-scaled lizard
Ichnotropis tanganicana Boulenger, 1917 - Tanzanian rough-scaled lizard,

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Ichnotropis.

References

Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidae, ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Ichnotropis, p. 78).
Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second Impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Ichnotropis, p. 162).
Peters W (1854). "Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden ". Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlung der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 614–628. (Ichnotropis, new genus, p. 617). (in German and Latin).

Taxon identifiers
Ichnotropis	Wikidata: Q947152 Wikispecies: Ichnotropis ADW: Ichnotropis BOLD: 757773 CoL: 53D6 EoL: 30433 GBIF: 2469745 iNaturalist: 35951 IRMNG: 1062741 ITIS: 1155167 NCBI: 80447 Open Tree of Life: 1014438 uBio: 8046688