Calotes manamendrai Amarasinghe & Karunarathna 2014

Calotes manamendrai (Manamendra-Arachchi's whistling lizard) is an agamid lizard endemic to Sri Lanka.^[2] Locally known as මනමේන්ද්‍ර-ආරච්චිගේ උරුවන් කටුස්සා (Manamendra-Arachchigë Uruwan Katussa).

Etymology

The specific name is as an honor to the herpetologist and taxonomist Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi for his remarkable contributions to the biodiversity and zooarchaeology of Sri Lanka for more than three decades.^[2]

Description

Female with non enlarged pectoral scales. Dorsal scales keeled. Midgular scales smaller than the rest of the throat scales. Seven distinct stripes found on each side on gular area. Shoulder pit blackish.^[3]

References

Calotes manamendrai es una especie de iguanios de la familia Agamidae.^[1]​

Distribución geográfica y hábitat

Es endémica de Sri Lanka. Su rango altitudinal oscila alrededor de 1000 msnm.

Referencias

• Amarasinghe, Karunarathna & Fujinuma, 2014 : A New Calotes Species from Sri Lanka with a Redescription of Calotes liolepis Boulenger, 1885. Herpetologica, vol. 70, nº 3, p. 323-338.

Calotes manamendrai est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Agamidae^[1].

Répartition

Cette espèce est endémique du Sri Lanka^[1].

Étymologie

Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi^[1].

Publication originale

• Amarasinghe, Karunarathna & Fujinuma, 2014 : A New Calotes Species from Sri Lanka with a Redescription of Calotes liolepis Boulenger, 1885. Herpetologica, vol. 70, n^o 3, p. 323-338.

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