Lophocalotes ludekingi

Lophocalotes ludekingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Iguania
Family:Agamidae
Genus:Lophocalotes
Species: L. ludekingi
Binomial name
Lophocalotes ludekingi
(Bleeker, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
  • Calotes ludekingi
    Bleeker, 1860
  • Lophocalotes interruptus
    Günther, 1872
  • Lophocalotes Luedekingii [sic]
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Lophocalotes ludekingi
    — de Rooij, 1915

Lophocalotes ludekingi is a species endemic to Sumatra, Indonesia, commonly called the crested lizard.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, ludekingi, is in honor of Dutch physician E.W.A. Ludeking, who collected specimens for the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Lophocalotes ludekingi. The Reptile Database.
  2. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lophocalotes ludekingi, p. 162).

Further reading

  • Bleeker P. 1860. "Reptiliën van Agam ". Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 20: 325-329. (Calotes ludekingi, new species, pp. 326–327). (in Dutch).
  • Boulenger GA. 1887. "Note on some Reptiles from Sumatra described by Bleeker in 1860". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series 20: 152. ("Lophocalotes Luedekingii [sic]", new combination).
  • Günther A. 1872. "On the Reptiles and Amphibians of Borneo". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 586-600. (Lophocalotes, new genus, p. 593).
  • de Rooij N. 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xiv + 384 pp. (Lophocalotes ludekingi, pp. 116–117, Figure 51).
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