''Draco maculatus'', commonly known as the spotted flying dragon or spotted gliding lizard, is a species of agamid

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endemic to Southeast Asia. It is capable of gliding from tree to tree.

Description

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. 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). From

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, ; tail, .

Subspecies

The following four

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(or races) are recognized, including the

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: *''Draco maculatus divergens''

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, 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''

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, 1900: N Vietnam, Hainan; type locality = "Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan".

Geographic range

From Assam and Yunnan to Singapore. Southern China (Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), India (E. Himalayas to Assam), Bangladesh (

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), Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and W. Malaysia.

Notes

References

* 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'' alcutta16 (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).

External links

* * https://web.archive.org/web/20051203120649/http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/myanmar/checklist_lizards.html * http://www.ecologyasia.com/html-menu/species-list.htm {{Taxonbar, from=Q2599361 Reptiles of Southeast Asia Reptiles of Thailand maculatus Taxa named by John Edward Gray Reptiles described in 1845