The desert plated lizard (Gerrhosaurus skoogi) is a reptile species endemic to the northern Namib Desert in Namibia and Angola.

[4] The specific name, skoogi, is in honor of Hilmer Nils Erik Skoog (1870–1927), who was Curator of the Götesborgs Naturhistoriska museum from 1904 to 1927.

[5] In 1916 Andersson described this lizard as a new species, naming it Gerrhosaurus skoogi.

In 1953 FitzSimons assigned the species to a new genus Angolosaurus.

Recent studies[3] suggest that this monotypic genus is synonymous to Gerrhosaurus and makes it paraphyletic; therefore A. skoogi was reclassified as Gerrhosaurus skoogi.