Pseudocalotes andamanensis Boulenger, 1891
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Calotes andamanensis Boulenger, 1891
Conservation Status
Last record: 7 January 1882 (possible second specimen collected in 1964 too damaged to identify to species level)
Rediscovered in 2010 (Surendran & Vasudevan, 2013)
Distribution
Andaman Islands, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Boulenger, G. A. (1891). On new or little-known Indian and Malayan reptiles and batrachians. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London (6) 8: 288-292.
Other references:
Harikrishnan, S. & Vasudevan, K. (2013) Rediscovery of Calotes andamanensis Boulenger, 1891, and assessment of its generic allocation (squamata: sauria: Agamidae). Herpetozoa, 26, 3–13.
Ishwar, N. M. and Das, I. (1998). Rediscovery of [i]Calotes andamanensis[/i] Boulenger 1891, and a reassessment of the type locality. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 95: 513-514.
Krishnan, S. 2008. New species of Calotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from the Southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Herpetology 42(3): 530-535. [corrects the record of (Ishwa & Das, 1998), which actually pertains to [i]C. aurantolabium[/i]]
Surendran, Harikrishnan and Vasudevan, Karthikeyan. (2013). Rediscovery of Calotes andamanensis Boulenger, 1891, and assessment of its generic allocation. Herpetozoa 26(1/2): 3-13.