Pseudocalotes cybelidermus HARVEY, HAMIDY, KURNIAWAN, SHANEY & SMITH, 2014
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Pseudocalotes cybelidermus
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| Higher Taxa | Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Purple-throated False Garden Lizard |
| Synonym | Pseudocalotes cybelidermus HARVEY, HAMIDY, KURNIAWAN, SHANEY & SMITH 2014 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (S Sumatra) Type locality: montane forest at Maura Dua, Remanan Jaya, Gunung Pesagi (locally known as Masagi), Sumatera Selatan, Indonesia, 4.91°S, 104.13°E, 1574 m elevation. |
| Reproduction | oviparous. 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. |
| Types | Holotype: MZB 9767, an adult male (Fig. 3), collected 17 June 2013 by field parties from BC, MZB, UB, and UTA. Paratypes. Six specimens (MZB 9650, 9760, 9799, UTA 60549–60551) from the same mountain as the holotype, 1474–1643 m, collected 17 June 2013 by field parties from BC, MZB, UB, and UTA. Eight specimens (MZB 9766, 9769, 9800, UTA 60537–60539, 60552-60553) from montane forest above Ngarip, Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia, 5.28°S, 104.56° E, 1376–1521 m, collected 10–12 June 2013 by field parties from BC, MZB, UB, and UTA. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A species of Pseudocalotes reaching at least 310 mm (94 mm SVL) and distinguished from congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) discrete interparietal present (2) canthals five or six; (3) enlarged, heavily keeled to subpyramidal nuchal, posttemporal, posttympanic, and postrictal subpyramidal scales present; (4) gulars relatively large with sharp transition to smaller scales on well developed gular pouch; (5) antehumeral skin fold absent; (6) 6–8 enlarged heavily keeled scales in dorsolateral series between limbs, extending onto neck as short row of closely spaced scales; (7) scales on lower flanks heterogenous: slightly enlarged, heavily keeled scales scattered among smaller feebly keeled scales (8) 51–65 scales around midbody (9) dorsal crest of pointed, projecting scales extending to tail; (10) at midbody, ventrals larger than dorsals; () subdigital lamellae at base of Toe III modified: preaxial keels pointed, prominent; postaxial keels absent or greatly reduced; (12) dorsum bright green with dorsolateral series of white or bluish white, heavily keeled scales; (13) venter light green with prominent ventrolateral bluish white line between legs; (14) gular pouch light green laterally and sky blue medially, its skin purplish blue so that it appears to have oblique purplish blue lines when only partially extended; (15) tongue and floor of mouth yellow-orange, throat black. Additional details (2891 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Sympatry: P. guttalineatus |
| Etymology | Named after the Greek words kybelion, meaning blue-violet, and derma, meaning skin. The new name alludes to the striking blue-violet skin between scales of the gular pouch in Pseudocalotes cybelidermus. |
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