Lophocalotes

Lophocalotes
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]
  • Calotes ludekingi
    Bleeker, 1860
  • Lophocalotes interruptus
    Günther, 1872
  • Lophocalotes Luedekingii [sic]
    Boulenger, 1887
  • Lophocalotes ludekingi
    de Rooij, 1915

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

Wikispecies has information related to: Lophocalotes
  1. "Lophocalotes ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Iguania/agamidae.
  2. 1 2 Lophocalotes ludekingi. The Reptile Database.
  3. 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).

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