Calotes desilvai BAHIR & MADUWAGE, 2005

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Calotes desilvai BAHIR & MADUWAGE 2005 Calotes desilvai — SOMAWEERA & SOMAWEERA 2009
Distribution	Sri Lanka (lowland rain forest and a few isolated moist forests in the dry zone) Type locality: Morningside Forest, Eastern Sinharaja, Sri Lanka, 06°24’N, 80°36’E, elevation 1080 m. Map legend: - Type locality. - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Holotype: WHT 1832
Comment	Among the Sri Lankan Calotes, the new species seems most closely related to C. liolepis Boulenger. Rare and critically endangered in Sri Lanka (BAHIR & SURASINGHE 2005). Etymology: Named after Anslem de Silva, founder of the Amphibia and Reptile Research Organisation (ARROS) and patron of herpetology in Sri Lanka for more than the past three decades. Calotes desilvai is distinguished from C. liolepis by having the fifth toe 42.6–47.0% of head length in males, 41.9–45.9% in females (vs. 31.0–39.5% and 33.0–40.5% respectively, in C. liolepis); bands on gular area distinct, black (vs. bands on gular area faint, brown); shoulder pit black (vs. shoulder pit cream white to brown); and scales on ventral surface of thigh smooth (vs. scales on the ventral surface of thigh carinate). Males of C. desilvai may also be distinguished from males of C. liolepis by their longer upper arm and femur (49.6–50.0 and 70.3–75.0% of head length, respectively) vs. shorter upper arm and femur (40.3–49.3 and 57.1–69.5%, respectively) and a comparatively short posterior supratympanic spine (1.7–2.7% of head length), longer in C. liolepis (3.1–12.9%). Reproduction: oviparous
References	Bahir, M.M. & K. P. Maduwage 2005. Calotes desilvai, a new species of agamid lizard from Morningside Forest, Sri Lanka. Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl. No. 12: 381-392 Bahir, M.M. & T. Surasinghe 2005. A conservation assessment of the Sri Lankan Agamidae (Reptilia: Sauria). Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl. No. 12: 407-412 Somaweera, R. & Somaweera, N. 2009. Lizards of Sri Lanka: a colour guide with field keys. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 304 pp.
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