Lophocalotes ludekingi (BLEEKER, 1860)

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Crested Lizard
Synonym	Calotes Ludekingi BLEEKER 1860: 326 Lophocalotes interruptus GÜNTHER 1872 (fide BOULENGER 1887) Lophocalotes interruptus — BOULENGER 1885: 275 Calotes Luedekingi [sic] — BOULENGER 1887: 152 Lophocalotes ludekingi — DE ROOIJ 1915: 116 Lophocalotes ludekingi — WERMUTH 1967: 71 Lophocalotes ludekingi — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 194 Lophocalotes ludekingi — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 82 Lophocalotes ludekingi — CROTHER 1999 Lophocalotes ludekingii — HALLERMANN et al. 2004 Lophocalotes ludekingi — TEYNIÉ et al. 2010
Distribution	Indonesia (Sumatra, Gunung, Singgalang, Alahanpanjang, Sijunjung) Type locality: Agam, Sumatra.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH (same type for ludekingi and interruptus fide Harvey et al. 2018)
Diagnosis
Comment	BOULENGER 1887 synonymized Lophocalotes interruptus with Calotes Luedekingi. The holotype of Lophocalotes interruptus and Calotes ludenkingii is the same specimen and is deposited in BMNH (J. Hallermann, pers. comm.). Type species: Lophocalotes interruptus GÜNTHER 1872 is the type species of the genus Lophocalotes GÜNTHER 1872.
Etymology	Named in honor of the Dutch physician E.W.A. Lüdeking a collector for the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden.
References	ANANJEVA, Natalia B.; Xianguang GUO and Yuezhao WANG 2011. Taxonomic Diversity of Agamid Lizards (Reptilia, Sauria, Acrodonta, Agamidae) from China: A Comparative Analysis. Asian Herpetological Research 2 (3): 117-128 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bleeker, P. 1860. Reptilien van Agam. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, Batavia, 20: 325-329 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1887. Note on some reptiles from Sumatra described by BLEEKER in 1860. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 20: 152 - get paper here de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here Hallermann, J.; Orlov, N. & Ananyeva, N. 2004. Notes on distribution and colour pattern of the rare agamid lizard Lophocalotes ludekingii (BLEEKER 1860) in Sumatra (Indonesia). Salamandra 40 (3-4): 303-306 - get paper here Harvey, Michael B.; James Scrivani, Kyle Shaney, Amir Hamidy, Nia Kurniawan, and Eric N. Smith 2018. Sumatra's Endemic Crested Dragons (Agamidae: Lophocalotes): A New Species from the Bukit Barisan Range, Comments on Lophocalotes ludekingi, and Ecology. Herpetologica 74 (1): 73-88. - get paper here Manthey U 2010. Agamid Lizards of Southern Asia. Draconinae 2 -Leiolepidinae. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 7b, Frankfurt, 168 pp. Manthey, U. & Grossmann, W. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 512 pp. - get paper here Manthey,U. & SCHUSTER,N. 1999. Agamen, 2. Aufl. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 120 pp. - get paper here TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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