Combinations

• Zonurus vandami FitzSimons, 1930: 25 [original combination]
• [Cordylus vandami] — FitzSimons, 1943: 420 [name combination, by implication]
• Cordylus warreni vandami — Loveridge, 1944: 23 [name combination, reduce to subspecies]
• Cordylus vandami — Branch, 1998 [name combination, restaured to species]
• Smaug vandami — Stanley et al., 2011: 64 [name combination]

Synonyms

• Zonurus vandami perkoensis FitzSimons, 1930: 27

Holotype: TM 12804.

Type locality: “Farm 'Perkoe', Olifant's River District, E. Transvaal”, South Africa.

Primary references

• FitzSimons, V. 1930. Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with distribution records of allied species in the Transvaal Museum Collection. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14: 20–48. Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoirs 1: 1–528. Reference page. 

• Loveridge, A. 1944. Revision of the African lizards of the family Cordylidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 95: 1–118, pls. 1–12. BHL Reference page. 

• Branch, W.R. 1998. Field Guide to the Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Fully Revised and Updated to Include 83 New Species. Ralph Curtis Books: Sanibel Island, Florida. 399 pp. Reference page. 

• Stanley, E.L., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R., Branch, W.R. & Mouton, P. Le F.N. 2011. Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(1): 53–70. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.024 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Stanley, E.L. & Bates, M.F. 2014. Here be dragons: a phylogenetic and biogeographical study of the Smaug warreni species complex (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southern Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172(4): 892–909. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12187 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Smaug vandami. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 10 September 2017.