Draco maculatus

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Spotted Flying Dragon

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Family:	Agamidae
Genus:	Draco
Species:	D. maculatus

Binomial name

Draco maculatus
Cantor, 1847

Synonyms

Dracunculus maculatus GRAY 1845
Draco divergens TAYLOR 1934
Draco haasei BOETTGER 1893

Draco maculatus is an agamid "flying" lizard capable of gliding from tree to tree found in Southern China (Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, SE Xizang = Tibet), India (E. Himalayas to Assam - Naga hills and Abor country, Mizoram), Myanmar (= Burma), Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, W Malaysia

divergens: Nw Thailand; Terra typica: Chieng Mai, N Siam; restricted to Doi Suthep Mountain by TAYLOR 1963. haasei: E Thailand, Cambodia, S Vietnam; Terra typica: Chantaboon, Siam. whiteheadi: N Vietnam, Hainan; Terra typica: Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan.

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Boettger,O. 1893 Ein neuer Drache (Draco) aus Siam. Zool. Anz. 16: 429-430
Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.
Boulenger,G.A. 1900 On the reptiles, batrachians (and fishes) collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead in the interior of Hainan. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1899: 956-959
Cantor. T. E. 1847 Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. J Asiat. Soc., Bengal, Calcutta. 16 (2): 607 - 656, 897-952, 1026 - 1078
Gray, J. E. 1845 Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp.
Günther, A. 1861 Second list of Siamese reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 8: 266-268
McGuire, Jimmy A. & Heang, Kiew Bong 2001 Phylogenetic systematics of Southeast Asian flying lizards (Iguania: Agamidae: Draco) as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72: 203-229