Dendragama boulengeri DORIA, 1888
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Dendragama boulengeri
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| Higher Taxa | Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Boulenger's Tree Agama |
| Synonym | Dendragama boulengeri DORIA 1888 Dendragama boulengeri — WERNER 1900: 484 Dendragama boulengeri — DE ROOIJ 1915: 118 Calotes (Pseudocalotes) boulengeri — MERTENS 1954: 185 Calotes boulengeri — WERMUTH 1967: 34 Calotes boulengeri — BRYGOO 1988: 9 Dendragama boulengeri — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 167 Dendragama boulengeri — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 51 Dendragama boulengeri — TEYNIÉ et al. 2010 Dendragama schneideri — HARVEY Et al. 2017 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Sumatra) Type locality: Mount Singalang, West Sumatra (elevation 2800 feet) = Gunung Singgalang, Kabupaten Agam, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia, 0.38°S, 100.36°E |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: MSNG 29936, male; paralectotype (?): MRSN (= MSNTO) R2856; MNHN-RA 1889.27 (2133 alpha), also as MHNP, fide Brygoo 1988. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: The following combination of characters distinguishes Dendragama boulengeri from its congeners: (1) enlarged scales below eye separated from supralabials by continuous row of small lorilabials; (2) enlarged tympanic scale intermediate in size (7–14% of head length) and set far back on head (orbit–meatus 24–32% of head length); (3) sublabial tubercular scales 0–3, usually 1, in front of postrictal modified scale; (4) gulars small, 30–38; (5) dorsal crest of 11–18 projecting scales, serrate with obvious gaps between enlarged projecting scales; (6) dorsolateral crest of more or less continuous posttympanic and dorsolateral series; (7) scales around midbody 62–84; (8) scales of lower flanks heterogenous in size, smooth to feebly keeled; (9) ventrals heavily keeled, 50–63; (10) no white sublabial stripe extending from below eye to level of ear, however 1–3 white spots usually present in this region; (11) most specimens with prominent black prescapular blotch edged posteriorly in white; (12) proximal half of tail with 7–9 dark brown or green bands; (13) buccal epithelium and tongue yellow or orange [Harvey et al. 2017: 83] |
| Comment | Synonymy partly after WERMUTH 1967. Shaney et al. 2020 formally revalidated D. schneideri from the synonymy of D. boulengeri. Type species: Calotes boulengeri DORIA 1888 is the type species of the genus Dendragama DORIA 1888. Key: Shaney et al. 2020 provide a key to the species of Dendragama. Distribution: see map in Shaney et al 2020: 130 (Fig. 1). |
| Etymology | Named after George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937), herpetologist at the British Museum of Natural History, London. |
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