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Ptyctolaemus gularis (Green Fan-throated lizard)

Synonyms: Otocryptis gularis

Wikipedia Abstract

The green fan-throated lizard (Ptyctolaemus gularis) is a species of agamid lizard found in Bangladesh, China (Tibet), India (Northeast- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Khasi Hills, Mizoram) and Myanmar (Kachin, Chin), and possibly in Bhutan. The type locality, "Calcutta", is in error fide Zhao & Adler 1993; Ananjeva & Stuart (2001) give it as Margherita, in Patkai Mountains, Upper Assam. Ptyctolaemus gularis is the type species of the genus Ptyctolaemus.
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Attributes

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

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests India, Nepal Indo-Malayan Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Meghalaya subtropical forests India Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Triangle subtropical forests Myanmar Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

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

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