Lophocalotes
| Lophocalotes | |
|---|---|
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| Lophocalotes ludekingi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Subfamily: | Draconinae |
| Genus: | Lophocalotes Günther,[1] 1872 |
| Species: | L. ludekingi |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophocalotes ludekingi (Bleeker, 1860) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Lophocalotes is a genus of agamid lizard, containing a single species, Lophocalotes ludekingi, endemic to Sumatra, Indonesia, commonly called the crested lizard.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, ludekingi, is in honor of Dutch physician E.W.A. Ludeking, who collected specimens for the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden.[3]
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Lophocalotes |
- ↑ "Lophocalotes ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Iguania/agamidae.
- 1 2 Lophocalotes ludekingi. The Reptile Database.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lophocalotes ludekingi, p. 162).
Further reading
- Bleeker P. 1860. "Reptiliën van Agam ". Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 20: 325-329. (Calotes ludekingi, new species, pp. 326–327). (in Dutch).
- Boulenger GA. 1887. "Note on some Reptiles from Sumatra described by Bleeker in 1860". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series 20: 152. ("Lophocalotes Luedekingii [sic]", new combination).
- Günther A. 1872. "On the Reptiles and Amphibians of Borneo". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 586-600. (Lophocalotes, new genus, p. 593).
- de Rooij N. 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xiv + 384 pp. (Lophocalotes ludekingi, pp. 116–117, Figure 51).
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