Males are commonly compared to females in the image. Junior sungazers resemble the identical as grown-ups with the exemption that junior sungazers seldom have spots of orange-brown complexion. Sungazers are deep copper-colored to pale tan on the back surface and blonde or yellowish beneath. The tail is capped by dense, huge, pointed layers reducing in measurement from the bottom to the peak.
Layers on the posterior side are comparatively greater than peripheral layers, which is a twist that is more substantial than layers below. They possess four huge thorny layers at the rear of the crest and approximately four or five flakes extruding on the surface. Their builds are nearly perfectly wrapped in sharp flakes. The lankiest transcribed sungazer was estimated adjacent to 15 inches lanky. Van Wyk has surveyed grown-ups to be on standard 8 inches extended.
Previously famous as Cordylus Gigantes, the Smaug giganteus is the most abundant lizard in the girdled lizard crowd.
The sungazer is further perceived extensively as mbedla by Zulu-speaking people and pPathakalle by Sotho-speaking individuals. The most general descriptive nickname is ouvolk, provided by Afrikaans landholders who equate the thermoregulatory lounging form of the lizard to discharged laborers, who consume enormously of their time hunkering in the daylight. The species is famously recognized all around its division and is described by numerous various prevalent titles in diverse expressions. The species is popular as the sungazer because of its peculiar thermoregulatory function of raising the frontal portions of its material by lengthening its front legs, commonly adjacent to the access of its tunnel as if staring at the sun.