Calotes andamanensis

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Green Crestless Forest Lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Sauria Family: Agamidae Genus: Calotes Species: andamanensis
Binomial name
Calotes andamanensis Boulenger, 1891

The Green Crestless Forest Lizard (Calotes andamanensis) is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and is known from the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. The species name is wrongly given after the Andaman Islands where it does not occur.

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database
• Photograph of a Green Crestless Forest Lizard

[edit] References

• Boulenger,G.A. 1891 On new or little known Indian and Malayan reptiles and batrachians. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 8: 288-292
• Ishwar,N.M. & Das,I. 1998 Rediscovery of Calotes andamanensis Boulenger 1891, and a reassessment of the type locality. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 95: 513-514