Cordylus cataphractus ), also known as the armadillo lizard, golden armadillo lizard or armadillo spiny tailed lizard, is a girdled lizard endemic to desert areas along the western coast of South Africa.

the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

And the alligator has some very sophisticated senses.

The old brain is still there. You still have that alligator brain.

Well I'll argue a non intelligent brain, we got hold of an old brain, and we're going to say it's like a non mammal, like a reptile, so I'll say, an alligator we have an alligator.

You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.

But we don't consider the alligator very intelligent, not like in a human sort of way.

And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

Now, Mr. Alligator never did come, but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming actually saved my sanity and made it OK for me to keep going because I believed, in the distance, there would be someone coming to rescue me.

A member of the monitor lizard family (Varanidae), it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of 3 metres (10 ft) in rare cases and weighing up to approximately 70 kilograms (150 lb).

And I would go and pack a little bag and I would wait for Mr. Alligator to come.

The blue iguana is one of the longest living species of lizard (possibly up to 69 years).

St Keverne () is a civil parish and village on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

For example, you know, in New Orleans we have Cajun Chinese food, where they serve Sichuan alligator and sweet and sour crawfish, right?

'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

Lystrosaurus ( shovel lizard ) is a genus of Late Permian and Early Triassic Period dicynodont therapsids, which lived around 250 million years ago in what is now Antarctica, India, and South Africa.

If a predator tries to take it by the body, the lizard drives that side of its body down into the ground so the predator cannot easily get its lower jaw underneath.

And I actually made up a little character whose name was Mr. Alligator, and I would call him up when things got really bad, and I would say it was time to come and pick me up.

Brown intended this name in the same sense as the medical term ankylosis, to refer to the stiffness produced by the fusion of many bones in the skull and body, so the name is often translated as 'stiffened lizard.