Learn about Zanzibar’s lovely lizards!
At-a-glance guide to
zanzibar lizards
Zanzibar has over 20 species of lizard!
With our comprehensive and compact At-a-glance Guide to Zanzibar’s Lizards, you can learn all about them, how to identify them and where to find them!
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Kiswahili Lizard names
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For our guide, it is important to us that we use and share Swahili names that are used for our lizards. We have done our best to research the most locally-relevant, accurate names used, but information was hard to find!
So if you know our lizards by any other names, please get in touch! We would love to hear from you to improve future editions of the guide!
Further reading & references
Field Guide to East African Reptiles 2nd Edition
Spawls et al‘s definitive guide to all our reptiles – comprehensive and informative. Highly recommended if you have the weight allowance.
I’ve curated a list of books about Zanzibar wildlife to help you build a library of natural history books and field guides for every living thing in the archipelago.
The Reptiles & Amphibians of Zanzibar and Pemba Islands
Pakenham’s 1983 annotated checklist was the first published survey of Zanzibar herps, including species he was first to record in the isles. it is available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library to download free.