Blue-tailed sandveld lizard (Nucras caesicaudata) is a wall lizard

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 3800 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains...

 species of the genus Nucras

Nucras

Nucras is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae.-Species:*Nucras boulengeri*Nucras caesicaudata*Nucras intertexta*Nucras lalandii*Nucras livida*Nucras scalaris*Nucras taeniolata*Nucras tessellata...

and the family of true lizards (Lacertidae). It is found in southern Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

, southwestern Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

 and the extreme northeast of South Africa

South Africa

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. The lizard can clearly be distinguished because of its distinctive blue tail. Little has been discovered about its anatomy

Anatomy

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 and way of life as it is rarely encountered, but it lives in dry, sandy, savanna

Savanna

A savanna, or savannah, is a grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of C4 grasses.Some...

 ecoregion

Ecoregion

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