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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Jerdon's Forest Lizard
Chinese: 绿背树蜥 
SynonymCalotes jerdonii GÜNTHER 1870: 778
Calotes maria GRAY 1845 (part., fide SMITH 1935)
Calotes platyceps JERDON 1870 (not of BLYTH)
Calotes jerdonii — BOULENGER 1885: 323
Calotes yunnanensis ANNANDALE 1905: 87
Calotes jerdoni — SMITH 1935: 194
Calotes jerdoni — SMITH 1940: 478
Calotes jerdoni — WERMUTH 1967: 38
Calotes jerdoni — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 37 
DistributionIndia (Khasi Hills in Assam & Shillong, Mizoram, Nagaland), Burma (= Myanmar), Bhutan, China (Yunnan).

Type locality: “Affghanistan and Khassia Hill” (fide WERMUTH 1967).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotyope: BMNH 1946.8.11.54, designated by Boruah et al. 2022. Former syntypes: BMNH 1946.8.11.49-58, ZMB 8448 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A moderate-sized agamid lizard, SVL 63.2 mm–76.7 in male (n= 4) and SVL 74.1 mm–102.2 mm in female (n= 4), TailL 196 mm–240 mm in male (n= 4) and 204 mm–300 mm in female (n= 4). Nuchal and dorsal crests continuous, consisting of erect compressed scales, smaller posteriorly. Two series of supratympanic spines present. Body laterally compressed, scales at the trunk heterogeneous in size, larger than ventrals, larger at the mid- body towards dorsal side, oriented backward, 34–41 dorsal scales, 46–58 rows of scales around midbody, 68–78 ventrals. Mental larger than the chin shields, first pair of chin shields are of almost equal length and width; separated from each other by a small hexagonal scale, the gular scales at the mid-line are nearly equal to the adjacent gular scales away from the mid-line. Dorsally and ventrally green in colour. (Boruah et al. 2022) 
CommentSynonymy partly after WERMUTH 1967. According to KÄSTLE et al. (in SCHLEICH & KÄSTLE 2002: 93), Calotes jerdoni was listed erroneously from Tibet (figure G on plate 23 in ZHAO & ADLER 1993 shows Oriotiaris tricarinata but not Calotes jerdoni as the figure caption says), but has been reported from Yunnan (Zhao et al, 1999; Yang and Rao, 2008).

Group: The Calotes jerdoni complex has been defined as the species (jerdoni, maria, medogensis) that have two parallel rows of conical/spinous scales from posterior eye to temporal head, with superior row continuing from supraciliaries and inferior row from posteroinferior eye, both terminated on squamosal region of head.

Similar species: C. medogensis (the two species may have been confused in North-East India). 
EtymologyNamed after Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1811-1872), British physician, zoologist, and botanist who became an Assistant Surgeon in the East India Company. 
References
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  • BORUAH, B., NARAYANAN, S., DEEPAK, V., & DAS, A. 2022. Morphological and molecular differences in two closely related Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae) with the first record of Calotes medogensis Zhao & Li, 1984 from India. Zootaxa 5219 (5): 433-455 - get paper here
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