''Draco boschmai'' is a

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in the

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. The species is

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Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

Etymology

The

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, ''boschmai'', is in honor of Dutch zoologist

Hilbrand Boschma Hilbrand Boschma (22 April 1893 – 22 July 1976) was a Dutch zoologist and director of the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden. Boschma studied botany and zoology at the University of Amsterdam. He went to the former Dutch East Indies, w ...

. Beolens B, Watkins M,

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(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Draco boschmai'', p. 32).

Geographic range

Within Indonesia ''D. boschmai'' is found on the islands of Adonara,

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, Lombok, Rinca,

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, and Sumbawa.

Description

''D. boschmai'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about . The

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is dark brown.

Reproduction

''D. boschmai'' is

oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...

Etymology

Geographic range

Description

Reproduction

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