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title: "Black Girdled Lizard"
description: "Cordylus niger — Gady. Cordylus niger, the black girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a second, isolated population near Langebaan."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/black-girdled-lizard
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black Girdled Lizard

> Cordylus niger — Gady. Cordylus niger, the black girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a second, isolated population near Langebaan.

- Scientific name: *Cordylus niger*
- Category: `reptiles` (Gady)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 3400
- Wikidata: [Q2997194](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2997194)
- iNaturalist taxon: [33062](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/33062)

## Names

- en: Black Girdled Lizard
- de: Schwarzer Gürtelschweif
- fr: Cordyle noir
- nl: Black girdled lizard

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (3283)

## Summary

Cordylus niger, the black girdled lizard, is a medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a second, isolated population near Langebaan.
Black girdled lizards inhabit rocky outcrops on Table Mountain, South Africa. Unlike many other lizard species in the area, these particular Cordylus lizards are not social and are usually seen alone. They are spiny, flat, and pitch black in colour.
Their colour helps these unique lizards to absorb sufficient heat from the sun, in what is one of the darkest, least sunny parts of South Africa.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordylus_niger

## Photo

![Black Girdled Lizard](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-girdled-lizard/medium.jpg)

Photo: o2k · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330613039

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-girdled-lizard?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).