Exotic Reptiles

Girdled Lizard

Girdled Lizard Gallery

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Exotic Reptiles' breeding center automatically controls temperature, humidity, 
and sunlight to ensure that reptiles can breed in a comfortable environment.

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Documentation Supported

CITES

Rare animals can be imported only after receiving official CITES 
documentation from the relevant agency according to their classification 
and receiving prior import approval.

VET (Health Certificate of Animal Quarantine)

This certificate proves as an assurance by the relevant role-players in the 
exporting country to the relevant authorities in the importing country that 
the animal complies with the requirements of the importing country.

Lizards

Ouroborus cataphractus - CITES II

Armadillo Girdled Lizard

Armadillo Spiny-tailed Lizard

Report for Ouroborus cataphractus

The armadillo girdled lizard can be a light brown to dark brown in coloration. The underbelly is yellow with a 
blackish pattern, especially under the chin. Its size can range from 7.5 to 9 cm.

The armadillo girdled lizard is diurnal. It hides in rock cracks and crevices. It lives in social groups of up to 30 to 
60 individuals of all ages, but usually fewer.
The armadillo girdled lizard possesses an uncommon antipredator adaptation, in which it rolls into a ball and 
takes its tail in its mouth when frightened. In this shape, it is protected from predators by the thick, squarish 
scales along its back and the spines on its tail.

Smaug giganteus - CITES II

Sungazer lizard

giant girdled lizard

giant dragon lizard

Report for Smaug giganteus

The sungazer is a heavily armoured species, with a typical snout–to-vent length of 15–18 cm, and is easily 
distinguishable from other cordylids by the elongated pair of occipital spines and the enlarged keeled caudal 
spines.

Unlike most other rupicolous (living among rocks) members of the Cordylidae, sungazers live in self-excavated 
burrows (typically 0.4 m and 1.8 m) in the silty soil of the Themeda grassland in South Africa. They are 
insectivores, but occasionally eat small vertebrates. These colonial, ovoviviparous lizards reproduce every 2–3 
years, and only produce one or two offspring per breeding cycle. They are long-lived, and captives have been 
recorded surpassing 20 years of age.

Tortoise

Chersobius Signatus- CITES II

speckled tortoise

speckled padloper

speckled Cape tortoise

Report for Chersobius signatus

The males of C. signatus measure 6–8 cm in straight carapace length, while the larger females measure up to 
almost 10 cm ; they weigh about 95–165g. This species has a flattened shell with slightly serrated edges.

Speckled padlopers are most active in the early morning. Living among the rocky outcrops, they feed on small 
succulents that grow between the rocks and are small enough to reach. After mating, the female makes a nest 
of several eggs in damp soil between the rocks. The hatchlings are under 7 grams and 30 mm long, and emerge 
after 100 to 120 days. The average mature female speckled tortoise produces about ≤ 5 eggs per year.

Location

CITES

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South Africa

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