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A sleeping Yellow-throated False Garden Lizard (Pseudocalotes flavigula), (SMITH, 1924)

2024 [LIFER]

 

Habitat: Highlands of Pahang (5000-6000 feet elevation), Malay Peninsula.

ID by Dr Evan Quah and Parinya Pawangkhanant

Etymologynamed after its yellow throat (Latin “flavus = yellow, Latin “gula” = throat).

Also known as Malaya False Bloodsucker, Yellow-throated Forest Agamid.

 

Description: The color pattern in P. flavigula is quite variable. The dark, dorsal bands range from brown to black and from to distinct and diffuse to barely visible. The light-colored upper lip, lateral throat and proximal section of the brachium can range from immaculate white to lime-green and it may or may not extend onto the anterior portion of the flanks. There is considerable variation in overall ground color that ranges from dull-white to lime-green which we attribute to substrate matching (Fig. 12) (Grismer et al. 2016).

Reproduction: oviparous

Source: Grismer et al., (2016) www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4136.3.3

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Uploaded on February 3, 2024
Taken on February 3, 2024