The Pungwe Flat Lizard is a species of 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...

 in the Cordylidae

Cordylidae

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 family.

Description

Pungwe Flat Lizards females and juveniles are black with stripes on their back. Males vary by subspecies.

Pungwe Flat Lizards resemble the Common Flat Lizard, Platysaurus intermedius.

Geography

Pungwe Flat lizards live in eastern 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 Mozambique

Mozambique

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. They live in a savannah

Savannah

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 habitat.

Subspecies

Two subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

 of the Pungwe Flat Lizard exist, P. p. pungweensis and P. p. blakei.

• P. p. pungweensis - Lives in the highlands of 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 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...
  
  .
• P. p. blakei - Lives on the Manica
  Manica Province
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