''Coryphophylax brevicauda'', the short-tailed bay island forest lizard, is an

agamid Agamidae is a family of over 300 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Overview Phylogenetically, they may be sister to the I ...

lizard Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...

found in the

Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 37 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated f ...

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Coryphophylax Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Reptiles of India Reptiles described in 2012 Taxa named by Surendran Harikrishnan Taxa named by Karthikeyan Vasudevan Taxa named by Indraneil Das {{agamidae-stub