Calotes versicolor ( Daudin, 1802a )
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Calotes versicolor ( Daudin, 1802a)
Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest ; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 23.IX.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2451 , 1 juvenile, USMHC 2452 GoogleMaps .
Identification and natural history. One adult male ( USMHC 2451, SVL 74 mm, TL 218 mm) and one
juvenile ( USMHC 2452, SVL 57 mm, TL 166 mm) matched Das’s (2015), Grismer’s (2011b) and Pal et al.’s (2018) diagnosis in having a robust and compressed body; large head; well-developed nuchal and dorsal crest; lack of postorbital spine; body scales point backward and upward; 10–12 supralabials; 9–11 infralabials; 38–50 midbody scale rows; greyish-brown dorsum with irregular darker patches on the flanks and irregular dark crossbar on legs. Both specimens were found sleeping on vegetation along forest trail at night.
Daudin FM (1802 a) Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, des reptiles: ouvrage faisant suite a l'Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere, composee par Leclerc de Buffon, et redigee par C. S. Sonnini (Vol. 3). L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris, France, 395 pp.
Grismer LL (2011 b) Lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos: their description, distribution, and natural history. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 728 pp.
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