. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. December 1993 Asiatic Herpetological Research Vol. 5, p. 21. J ' • • i • a '• •; • \ 71' 74° FIG. 9. The geographic distribution of Calotes versicolor nigrigularis (solid dots) is restricted to elevations between 300 and 1800 m. The stippled zone is 1800 m. Localities of specimens morphologically intermediate between this race and Calotes v. versicolor arc indicated as radiating circumorbital bars are almost always evident, which also fade with age. Taxonomioc Considerations locality
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. December 1993 Asiatic Herpetological Research Vol. 5, p. 21. J ' • • i • a '• •; • \ 71' 74° FIG. 9. The geographic distribution of Calotes versicolor nigrigularis (solid dots) is restricted to elevations between 300 and 1800 m. The stippled zone is 1800 m. Localities of specimens morphologically intermediate between this race and Calotes v. versicolor arc indicated as radiating circumorbital bars are almost always evident, which also fade with age. Taxonomioc Considerations locality Pondicherry, India. Calotes versicolor (Daudin), Jerdon 1853:470. This report recognizes a subspecies if 75 percent of the available individuals from a geographic area can be correctly assigned to that provenance on the basis of one or more characters. Analysis of the data suggests that Calotes versicolor is divisible into at least two subspecies. Geographic discontinuities in the diagnostic characters are the basis for the generalized racial distributions shown in Figure 9. Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin) Agama versicolor Daudin 1802:395. Type locality "India". Agama tiedmanni Kuhl 1820:109. Type ? Calotes viridis Gray 1846:648. Type locality Madras. (Type specimen lost). A subspecies of C. versicolor distributed from Sri Lanka north through most of peninsular India and Pakistan, west to the Kabul Valley in southeastern Afghanistan, northeast to Hainan Island, China and southeast to Sumatra, Indonesia; replaced in the northern mountains of Pakistan and adjacent Afghanistan and India by C. v. nigrigularis (nov. ssp, described below). Other undescribed races probably replace this plains form in northeastern India, and lowland areas of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations m
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