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Calotes versicolor
Description
Calotes versicolor
Figure 1; Table 2
Distribution in the KTM Valley: A single individual was encountered in Shivapuri National Park. Pokhrel et al. (2011) recorded them from Nagarjun NP.
Remarks:This specimen was encountered at 1400 on an exposed hillside in dry disturbed habitat (grassland) on the south side of Shivapuri National Park (Figure 1). It fled when approached.
Notes
Published as part of O, Kyle A., Connell, Aryal, Prakash C., Sherchan, Adarsh M., Dhakal, Bimala, Chaudhary, Hemanta Kumari, Ranabhat, Rishi & Karmacharya, Dibesh, 2019, A herpetological survey of the Kathmandu Valleyı Nepalı and phylogenetic identification of Megophrys (Xenophrys) zhangi, pp. 1421-1437 in Journal of Natural History 53 (23) on page 1432, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1655106, http://zenodo.org/record/3670114
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Daudin
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Agamidae
- Genus
- Calotes
- Species
- versicolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802) sec. O, Connell, Aryal, Sherchan, Dhakal, Chaudhary, Ranabhat & Karmacharya, 2019
References
- Pokhrel GK, Aryal PC, Shah KB, Rjal B, Suwal MK, Kharel SC, Paudel E, Dhamala MK. 2011. Herpetofaunal diversity of nagarjun forest. Nepal J Sci and Tech. 12: 358 - 365. doi: 10.3126 / njst. v 12 i 0.6524