Gonocephalus kuhlii (SCHLEGEL, 1851)
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Gonocephalus kuhlii
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| Higher Taxa | Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Lophyrus kuhlii SCHLEGEL 1851 Gonyocephalus kuhli — BOULENGER 1885: 286 Gonyocephalus kuhli — DE ROOIJ 1915: 101 Gonocephalus kuhlii — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 185 Gonocephalus kuhlii — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 61 Gonocephalus kuhlii — MANTHEY 2010 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Sumatra, Java) Type locality: Java and Sumatra |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | |
| Diagnosis | Description: Snout about as long as the diameter of the orbit ; canthus rostralis sharp; supraciliary borders strongly raised, angular posteriorly; tympanum a little smaller than the eye-opening. Head-scales small, unequal, keeled; a few enlarged tubercles round the ear-opening; eleven to thirteen upper and lower labials. Gular sac moderate, with a serrated anterior edge and covered with small keeled scales. Body compressed; nuchal and dorsal crests continuous, former beginning at the occiput and composed of triangular scales as long as the diameter of the eye-opening, with two rows of keeled smaller ones at the base; dorsal crest much lower. Dorsal scales small, smooth, the points directed upwards, with irregularly scattered enlarged ones; ventral scales larger, keeled. Tail compressed, with a serrated upper edge and covered with feebly keeled scales, the inferior largest and strongly keeled; its length one time and three fourths the length of head and body. Limbs long, slender, the hind limb reaches the eye; scales of limbs unequal, keeled; third and fourth fingers equal (de Rooij 1915: 101). Coloration: Olive-brown or greenish-brown above, with dark transverse bands; dark brown streaks radiating from the eye, a broad blackish band from the eye, through the ear to the shoulder, bordered above by a light streak. Limbs with dark bands; tail with dark and light annuli. Lower parts yellowish-brown, spotted with black; gular sac bluish, with yellowish lines. Young specimens have dark oblique lines on the throat and the gular fold black (de Rooij 1915: 101). Size: Length of head and body 98 mm; tail 160 mm (de Rooij 1915: 101). |
| Comment | Synonymy: BARBOUR 1912 synonymized G. kuhlii with Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus, a position that was also supported by Kopstein 1932. However, Manthey & Denzer 1993 confirmed the validity of G. kuhlii. |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821), a German ornithologist who was an assistant to Conrad Jacob Temminck. He also worked with Johan Conrad van Hasselt in Java before dying in Buitenzorg of a tropical disease. |
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