title: Pungwe flat lizard
text: # Pungwe flat lizard
  
  The Pungwe flat lizard (Platysaurus pungweensis) is a species of lizard in the Cordylidae family.
  
  ## Description
  
  Females and juveniles of the Pungwe flat lizard are black and striped on their backs. Males vary by subspecies. The species resembles the common flat lizard, Platysaurus intermedius.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Pungwe flat lizards live in eastern Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique. The type was obtained at the Pungwe River at 730 m (2,400 ft) above sea level, near the eastern border of Rhodesia (current Zimbabwe).
  
  ## Habitat and ecology
  
  Pungwe flat lizards inhabit low rock outcrops and large hills in mesic savanna. They eat ants and beetles.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  Two subspecies are accepted:
  
  * P. p. pungweensis – Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique
  * P. p. blakei Broadley, 1964 – outcrops and inselbergs in the lowlands of southern Manica Platform, central Mozambique. Type locality 24 kilometres (15 miles) southeast of Vila de Manica.
  