| Spotted Flying Dragon | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Genus: | Draco |
| Species: | D. maculatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Draco maculatus Cantor, 1847 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Dracunculus maculatus Gray 1845 |
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Draco maculatus is an agamid flying lizard capable of gliding from tree to tree found in parts of Southeast Asia. It is commonly named the Spotted Flying Dragon.
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Head small; snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit; nostril lateral, directed outwards ; tympanum scaly. Upper head-scales unequal, strongly keeled; a compressed prominent scale on the posterior part of the superciliary region; 7 to 11 upper labials. The male's gular appendage very large, always much longer than the bead, and frequently twice as long ; female also with a well-developed but smaller gular sac. Male with a very small nuchal crest. Dorsal scales but little larger than the ventrals, irregular, smooth or very feebly keeled; on each side of the back a series of large trihedral keeled distant scales. The fore limb stretched forwards reaches beyond the tip of the snout; the adpressed hind limb reaches a little beyond the elbow of the adpressed fore limb, or to the axilla. Greyish above, with more or less distinct darker markings; a more or less distinct darker mterorbital spot; wing-membranes above with numerous small round black spots, which are seldom confluent, beneath immaculate or with a few black epots; a blue spot on each side of the base of the gular appendage.[1]
From snout to vent 3.25 inches ; tail 4.5.
Three races are noted
From Assam and Yunnan to Singapore.
Southern China (Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), India (E. Himalayas to Assam), Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and W. Malaysia.