Calotes manamendrai

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).

Manamendra-Arachchi’s whistling lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Calotes
Species:
C. manamendrai
Binomial name
Calotes manamendrai
Amarasinghe & Karunarathna, 2014[1]

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]

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References
  1. Amarasinghe, A.A. Thasun; D.M.S. Suranjan Karunarathna & J. Fujinuma (2014). "A new Calotes species from Sri Lanka with a redescription of Calotes liolepis Boulenger, 1885". Herpetologica. 70 (3): 323–338. doi:10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-13-00087.
  2. Calotes manamendrai at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 January 2015.
  3. "A New Calotes Species from Sri Lanka with a Redescription of Calotes liolepis Boulenger, 1885". Novataxa. Retrieved 3 February 2019.


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