Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Agamidae > Calotes > Calotes jerdoni

Calotes jerdoni (Jerdon's Forest Lizard)

Synonyms: Calotes jerdonii; Calotes platyceps (heterotypic); Calotes yunnanensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Calotes jerdoni, commonly known as the Indo-Chinese forest lizard, is a species of agamid lizard endemic to China and South Asia.
View Wikipedia Record: Calotes jerdoni

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal, Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0