Calotes rouxii

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Roux's Forest Lizard

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Family:	Agamidae
Genus:	Calotes
Species:	rouxii

Binomial name

Calotes rouxii
Duméril & Bibron, 1837

Calotes rouxii is an agamid lizard found in the Western Ghats of India (Bombay Presidency, Travancore)

[edit] Description

From C. A. L. Gunther (1864) The Reptiles of British India.

Two small groups of spines, separated from each other, on each side of the neck. A fold in front of the shoulder. Tail compressed into a sharpish edge at its base, covered superiorly with very large pentagonal scales. Scales on the sides of the body nearly as large as those on the belly. Tail below with four longitudinal scries of rhomboid, strongly keeled scales, each terminating in a point posteriorly. Brownish, uniform or spotted with black. The exact locality whence this species has been obtained is not known, nor has the species ever been identified by more recent observers. Jcrdon enumerates a C. rouxii in his list of the Reptiles of Southern India (Joum. As. Soc. Bcng. xxii. p. 471); having seen a rough figure of this species in the collection of drawings in the possession of W. Elliott, Esq., I have come to the conclusion that this must be an undescribed species, having a pair of isolated spines immediately behind the orbit and a black fold of the skin before each shoulder. The male is represented as uniform blackish brown, with yellow head and neck; the female brown, with irregular dark cross bands. I propose for this species the name of G. elliotti. Mr. Blyth also has a C. rouxi from Birma and Ceylon; but this determination is as incorrect as that by Mr. Jerdon, the lizard in question having a row of three or four spines above the tympanum (see C. nigrilabris).

[edit] References

Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1837 Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 4. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris.
Günther, A. 1864 The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp.