''Leiolepis boehmei'', also known commonly as Böhme's butterfly lizard and ''Böhmes Schmetterlingsagame'' in German, is a

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in the

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. The species is

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Etymology

The

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, ''boehmei'', is in honor of German herpetologist

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Geographic range

''L. boehmei'' is found in southern Thailand.

Habitat

The preferred natural

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of ''L. boehmei'' is coastal areas with beach forest or sand dunes.

Description

Medium-sized for its

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, ''L. boehmei'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . The tail is long, slightly more than twice SVL.

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, it is dark olive. Ventrally, it is grayish. Darevsky & Kupriyanova (1993).

Behavior

''L. boehmei'' is

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and

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Reproduction

''L. boehmi'' is a unisexual, all female,

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species, which reproduces by

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References

, 1829 from Thailand and Vietnam (Squamata: Sauria: Uromastycinae)". ''Herpetozoa'' 6 (1–2): 3–20. (''Leiolepis boehmei'', new species, pp. 4–8, Figure 1). (in English, with an abstract in German). * Grismer JL, Bauer AM, Grismer LL, Thirakhupt K, Aowphol A, Oaks JR, Wood PL, Onn CK, Thy N, Cota M, Jackman T (2014). "Multiple origins of parthenogenesis, and a revised species phylogeny for the Southeast Asian butterfly lizards, ''Leiolepis'' ". ''Biological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 113 (4): 1080–1093. Leiolepis Reptiles of Thailand Reptiles described in 1993 Taxa named by Ilya Darevsky {{agamidae-stub