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Pseudocalotes baliomus HARVEY, SHANEY, HAMIDY, KURNIAWAN & SMITH, 2017

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Spot-Shouldered False Garden Lizard 
SynonymPseudocalotes baliomus HARVEY, SHANEY, HAMIDY, KURNIAWAN & SMITH 2017 
DistributionIndonesia (Sumatra)

Type locality: forest west of the mountain crest next to the road from Tapan to Sungai Penuh, Sumatera Barat Department, Sumatra, Indonesia, 2.04294°S, 101.31129°E (WGS 84 geodetic system), 1181 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous. The eggs of this species are oval-shaped rather than fusiform as in Bronchocela (Diong & Lim 1998). UTA R- 60549 (SVL 66.5 mm) has one large egg (5.0 X 3.8 mm) and four small, undeveloped eggs (1.3–1.8 mm in diameter) in the right ovary. This specimen’s oviducts are highly convoluted and somewhat distended, suggesting that the developing egg would not have been the specimen’s first clutch. 
TypesHolotype: MZB 9813, adult male. collector’s tag ENS 14429), collected by Elijah Wostl and Eric N. Smith on 23 June 2013.
Paratypes. An adult male (RMNH 3013a) and female (RMNH 3013b) from “Sumatra” Indonesia, collected by Salomon Müller. The paratypes lack any locality data other than “Sumatra.” 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of Pseudocalotes reaching at least 218 mm (68 mm SVL) and distinguished from congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) interoculabials 3 or 4; (2) canthals 6 or 7; (3) enlarged, heavily keeled to subpyramidal posttemporal and posttympanic scales present; postrictal modified scale absent; (4) gulars relatively small, homogenous, no sharp transition to small scales on gular pouch; (5) antehumeral fold poorly developed; (6) dorsolateral row of widely spaced heavily keeled scales present; (7) scales on lower flanks heterogenous with heavily keeled scales interspersed with smaller feebly keeled scales; (8) 53–55 scales around midbody; (9) dorsal crest of denticulate scales extending to base of tail; all projecting scales of crest separated by medial contact between scales of paravertebral series; (10) ventrals smaller than dorsals; (11) subdigital lamellae at base of Toe III bicarinate with preaxial and postaxial keels well developed; (12) 7 or 8 lamellae under Toe IV within the span of the fifth toe; (13) dorsum green, banded; distinctive white scapular spot; (14) ventral body yellow-green, immaculate; (15) gular pouch yellow-green immaculate; (16) tongue pale blue, throat black.


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Comment 
EtymologyThe new name baliomus is a masculine adjective derived from the Greek adjective balios meaning spotted and Greek noun omos meaning shoulder. The new name refers to the diagnostic white blotches on the shoulder of Pseudocalotes baliomus. 
References
  • HARVEY, MICHAEL B.; KYLE SHANEY, AMIR HAMIDY, NIA KURNIAWAN, ERIC N. SMITH 2017. A new species of Pseudocalotes (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra with an Estimation of its phylogeny. Zootaxa 4276 (2): 215–232 - get paper here
  • Xu, Y., Gong, Y., Hou, M., Weng, S., Liu, S., Deng, J., ... & Peng, L. 2024. A New Species of the Genus Pseudocalotes (Squamata: Agamidae) from Southwest Yunnan, China. Animals, 14(6): 826 - get paper here
 
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