Draco maculatus
| Draco maculatus | |
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| Draco maculatus in Thailand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Genus: | Draco |
| Species: | D. maculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Draco maculatus (Gray, 1845)
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Draco maculatus, commonly known as the spotted flying dragon or spotted gliding lizard, is a species of agamid flying lizard endemic to Southeast Asia. It is capable of gliding from tree to tree.
Description[edit]
Head small; snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit; nostril lateral, directed outwards; tympanum scaly. Upper head-scales unequal, strongly keeled; a compressed prominent scale on the posterior part of the superciliary region; 7 to 11 upper labials. The male's gular appendage very large, always much longer than the head, and frequently twice as long; female also with a well-developed but smaller gular sac. Male with a very small nuchal crest. Dorsal scales but little larger than the ventrals, irregular, smooth or very feebly keeled; on each side of the back a series of large trihedral keeled distant scales. The fore limb stretched forwards reaches beyond the tip of the snout; the adpressed hind limb reaches a little beyond the elbow of the adpressed fore limb, or to the axilla. Greyish above, with more or less distinct darker markings; a more or less distinct darker interorbital spot; wing-membranes above with numerous small round black spots, which are seldom confluent, beneath immaculate or with a few black spots; a blue spot on each side of the base of the gular appendage.[3]
From snout to vent length, 82 mm (3.2 in); tail, 115 mm (4.5 in).[3]
Subspecies[edit]
The following four subspecies (or races) are recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies:[2]
- Draco maculatus divergens Taylor, 1934: NW Thailand; type locality = "Chiang Mai, N Siam"; restricted to "Doi Suthep Mountain" by Taylor, 1963.
- Draco maculatus haasei Boettger, 1893: E Thailand, Cambodia, S Vietnam; type locality = "Chantaboon, Siam".
- Draco maculatus maculatus (Gray, 1845)
- Draco maculatus whiteheadi Boulenger, 1900: N Vietnam, Hainan; type locality = "Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan".
Geographic range[edit]
From Assam and Yunnan to Singapore.
Southern China (Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), India (E. Himalayas to Assam), Bangladesh (Satchari National Park, Sylhet), Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and W. Malaysia.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Manthey, U. & Stuart, B.L. (2010). "Draco maculatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010. IUCN: e.T170396A6775905. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T170396A6775905.en. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ a b Boulenger GA. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Draco maculatus, p. 112).
References[edit]
- Boettger O. 1893. "Ein neuer Drache (Draco) aus Siam". Zool. Anz. 16: 429-430.
- Boulenger GA. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ, Eublepharidæ, Uroplatidæ, Pygopodidæ, Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I- XXXII. (Draco maculatus, pp. 262–263).
- Boulenger GA. 1900. "On the reptiles, batrachians (and fishes) collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead in the interior of Hainan". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1899: 956-959.
- Cantor TE. 1847. "Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal [Calcutta] 16 (2): 607-656, 897-952, 1026–1078.
- Gray JE. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxvii + 289 pp. (Dracunculus maculatus, p. 236).
- Günther A. 1861. "Second list of Siamese reptiles". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Third Series 8: 266-268.
- McGuire, Jimmy A.; Heang, Kiew Bong. 2001. "Phylogenetic systematics of Southeast Asian flying lizards (Iguania: Agamidae: Draco) as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72: 203-229.
- Smith MA. 1935. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (Draco maculatus, pp. 138–140, Figure 42 + Figure 41 A on p. 136).