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Pseudocalotes kakhienensis

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Kakhyen Hills spiny lizard
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Pseudocalotes
Species:
P. kakhienensis
Binomial name
Pseudocalotes kakhienensis
(Anderson, 1879)
Synonyms

Oriocalotes kakhienensis Anderson, 1879
Salea kakhienensis (Anderson, 1879)

Pseudocalotes kakhienensis, the Kakhyen Hills spiny lizard or Burmese mountain agamid, is a species of agamid lizard found in southern China (western Yunnan), Myanmar (= Burma) (east of Irrawaddy River), India, and northern Thailand.[1]

The type locality is Ponsee, Western Yunnan.

References

  1. ^ Pseudocalotes kakhienensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 November 2014.
  • Anderson, JOHN 1879 Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1866 and 1875; and a Monograph of the Two Cetacean Genera Platanista and Orcella. Bernard Quaritch, London "1878". Two volumes (Text: 985 pages [herpetology: pages 703–860, 969-975]; Atlas: 85 plates [herpetological plates 55–78, 75A, 75B]).
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.