Calotes vindumbarbatus Wagner, Ihlow, Hartmann, Flecks, Schmitz, & Böhme, 2021.Calotes versicolor ( Daudin, 1802) – Oriental garden lizard, changeable lizard, eastern garden lizard.Calotes pethiyagodai (Amarasinghe, Karunarathna & Hallermann, 2014).Calotes paulus (Smith, 1935) – small forest lizard.Calotes nemoricola Jerdon, 1853 – Nilgiri forest lizard.Duméril & Bibron, 1837) – Indo-Chinese forest lizard, blue-crested lizard Calotes minor (Hardwicke & Gray, 1827) – Hardwicke's bloodsucker.Calotes medogensis ( Zhao & Li, 1984) – Medog bloodsucker.Calotes maria Gray, 1845 – Khasi Hills forest lizard.Calotes manamendrai ( Amarasinghe & Karunarathna, 2014) – Manamendra-Arachchi's whistling lizard.Calotes liolepis (Boulenger, 1885) – whistling lizard, Sri Lanka agama.Calotes liocephalus Günther, 1872 – spineless forest lizard, crestless lizard, lionhead agama.Calotes jerdoni Günther, 1870 – Jerdon's forest lizard.Calotes irawadi Zug, Brown, Schulte & Vindum, 2006.Calotes grandisquamis Günther, 1864 – large-scaled forest lizard.Calotes goetzi Wagner, Ihlow, Hartmann, Flecks, Schmitz, & Böhme, 2021.Calotes geissleri Wagner, Ihlow, Hartmann, Flecks, Schmitz, & Böhme, 2021.Calotes farooqi Auffenberg & Rehman, 1995 – Farooq's garden lizard.Calotes emma Gray, 1845 – Emma Gray's forest lizard, forest crested lizard.Calotes desilvai Bahir & Maduwage, 2005 - Morningside lizard, Ceylon black-band whistling lizard.Müller, 1887) – painted-lip lizard, Ceylon bloodsucker Calotes calotes ( Linnaeus, 1758) – common green forest lizard.Whether further splitting is necessary or whether the groups constitute subgenera of a monophyletic Calotes remains to be studied. All species in this group have their scales directed back, or up and down, or down only. The latter is restricted to the southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka. All species in this group have their dorsal and lateral scales directed upward. ![]() The former occurs through most of South Asia and further east. The genus Calotes is still a heterogeneous group that may be divided into the C. Calotes as we know it today was classified by Moody (1980) prior to which all of the above-mentioned genera were included in this genus. Compared to Bronchocela, Calotes have a proportionately shorter tail and limbs. The greatest species richness of the genus is from the Western Ghats, northeast India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.Ĭalotes is distinguished from related genera in having uniform-sized dorsal scales, and lacking a fold of skin extending between the cheek and shoulder, and in having proportionately stronger limbs than Pseudocalotes. versicolor has been introduced to Florida (USA), Borneo, Sulawesi, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Oman. Species in the genus Calotes are native to South Asia, southern China, mainland Southeast Asia and Ambon. The genus name Calotes has been derived from the Greek word Καλότης (Kalótës), meaning ‘beauty’, referring to the beautiful pattern of this genus. Some species are known as forest lizards, others as " bloodsuckers" due to their red heads, and yet others (namely C. Calotes is a genus of lizards in the draconine clade of the family Agamidae.
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