Nucras is a genus of African lacertid lizards, commonly called sandveld lizards.
Species
The following 13 species are recognized as being valid.
- Nucras aurantiaca Bauer, Childers, Broeckhoven, and Mouton, 2019
- Nucras boulengeri Neumann, 1900 - Uganda savannah lizard, Boulenger's scrub lizard
- Nucras broadleyi Branch, Conradie, Vaz-Pinto, & Tolley, 2019 - Angolan sandveld lizard
- Nucras caesicaudata Broadley, 1972 - bluetailed sandveld lizard, bluetail scrub lizard
- Nucras damarana Parker, 1936
- Nucras holubi (Steindachner, 1882) - Holub's sandveld lizard
- Nucras intertexta (A. Smith, 1838) - spotted sandveld lizard
- Nucras lalandii (Milne-Edwards, 1829) - Delalande's sandveld lizard, Laland's lizard, Delalande's spotted lizard
- Nucras livida (A. Smith, 1838) - Karoo sandveld lizard
- Nucras ornata (Gray, 1864) - ornate sandveld lizard, ornate scrub lizard
- Nucras scalaris Laurent, 1964 - scaled sandveld lizard
- Nucras taeniolata (A. Smith, 1838) - Albany sandveld lizard, striped scrub lizard
- Nucras tessellata (A. Smith, 1838) - western sandveld lizard, striped sandveld lizard, tiger lizard, striped sand lizard, banded sand lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Nucras.
References
Further reading
- Bischoff W (1991). "Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie Lacertidae 4. Die Gattungen Latastia, Meroles, Nucras, Ophisops, Pedioplanis und Philocortus". Die Eidechse 2 (4): 17–25. (in German).
- Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii 289 pp. (Nucras, new genus, p. 33).
