Calotes

Species in the genus Calotes are native to South Asia, southern China, mainland Southeast Asia and Ambon. Additionally, C. versicolor has been introduced to Florida (USA), Borneo, Sulawesi, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Oman.[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Calotes&species=versicolor Calotes versicolor]. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Retrieved 17 January 2013 The greatest species richness of the genus is from the Western Ghats, northeast India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Calotes is distinguished from related genera in having uniform-sized dorsal scales, and lacking a fold of skin extending between the cheek and shoulder, and in having proportionately stronger limbs than Pseudocalotes. Compared to Bronchocela, Calotes have a proportionately shorter tail and limbs. Calotes as we know it today was classified by Moody (1980) prior to which all of the above-mentioned genera were included in this genus.

File:Green garden lizard (Calotes calotes) male breeding (cropped).jpg male.]]The genus Calotes is still a heterogeneous group that may be divided into the C. versicolor and C. liocephalus groups.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. (Calotes groups, pp. 182-183) The former occurs through most of South Asia and further east. All species in this group have their dorsal and lateral scales directed upward. The latter is restricted to the southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka. All species in this group have their scales directed back, or up and down, or down only. Whether further splitting is necessary or whether the groups constitute subgenera of a monophyletic Calotes remains to be studied.

Listed alphabetically by specific name.[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Calotes&submit=Search Calotes'']. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

• File:Calotes ceylonensis at Kandalama.jpg]]Calotes bachae {{small|Hartmann et al., 2013}}Hartmann T, Geissler P, Poyarkov NA Jr, Ihlow F, Galoyan EA, Rödder D, Böhme W (2013). "A new species of the genus Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae) from southern Vietnam". Zootaxa 3599 (3): 246–260.
• Calotes bhutanensis {{small|Biswas, 1975}}
• Calotes calotes {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}} – common green forest lizard
• Calotes ceylonensis {{small|(F. Müller, 1887)}} – painted-lip lizard, Ceylon bloodsucker
• Calotes chincollium {{small|Vindum, 2003}}
• Calotes desilvai {{small|Bahir & Maduwage, 2005}} - Morningside lizard, Ceylon black-band whistling lizard
• Calotes emma {{small|Gray, 1845}} – Emma Gray's forest lizard, forest crested lizard
• Calotes emma alticristatus {{small|K.P. Schmidt, 1925}}
• Calotes emma emma {{small|Gray, 1845}}
• Calotes farooqi {{small|Auffenberg & Rehman, 1995}} – Farooq's garden lizardFile:Calotes mystaceus 275810202 (cropped).jpg]]
• Calotes geissleri {{small|Wagner, Ihlow, Hartmann, Flecks, Schmitz & Böhme, 2021}}
• Calotes goetzi {{small|Wagner, Ihlow, Hartmann, Flecks, Schmitz & Böhme, 2021}}
• Calotes grandisquamis {{small|Günther, 1864}} – large-scaled forest lizard
• Calotes htunwini {{small|Zug & Vindum, 2006}}
• Calotes irawadi {{small|Zug, Brown, Schulte & Vindum, 2006}}
• File:Calotes nemoricola Wayanad.jpg]]Calotes jerdoni {{small|Günther, 1870}} – Jerdon's forest lizard
• Calotes liocephalus {{small|Günther, 1872}} – spineless forest lizard, crestless lizard, lionhead agama
• Calotes liolepis {{small|(Boulenger, 1885)}} – whistling lizard, Sri Lanka agama
• Calotes manamendrai {{small|(Amarasinghe & Karunarathna, 2014)}} – Manamendra-Arachchi's whistling lizard
• Calotes maria {{small|Gray, 1845}} – Khasi Hills forest lizard
• Calotes medogensis {{small|(Zhao & S.-Q. Li, 1984)}} – Medog bloodsucker
• Calotes minor {{small|(Hardwicke & Gray, 1827)}} – Hardwicke's bloodsucker
• Calotes mystaceus {{small|(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837)}} – Indo-Chinese forest lizard, blue-crested lizard
• Calotes nemoricola {{small|Jerdon, 1853}} – Nilgiri forest lizardFile:Male Calotes versicolor.jpg male.]]
• Calotes nigrilabris {{small|(W. Peters, 1860)}} – black-cheek lizard
• Calotes nigriplicatus {{small|Hallermann, 2000}}
• Calotes paulus {{small|(M.A. Smith, 1935)}} – small forest lizard
• Calotes pethiyagodai {{small|(Amarasinghe, Karunarathna & Hallermann, 2014)}}
• Calotes sinyik {{small|Patel et al. 2024}}{{Cite journal |last=Patel |first=Harshil |last2=Thackeray |first2=Tejas |last3=Sheth |first3=Chintan |last4=Khandekar |first4=Akshay |last5=Agarwal |first5=Ishan |date=2024-10-15 |title=A new small-sized Calotes Cuvier (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae) from the Subansiri river basin, Arunachal Pradesh, India |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5523.2.1 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=5523 |issue=2 |pages=151–170 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5523.2.1 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }}
• Calotes versicolor {{small|(Daudin, 1802)}} – Oriental garden lizard, changeable lizard, eastern garden lizard
• Calotes vindumbarbatus {{small|Wagner, Ihlow, Hartmann, Flecks, Schmitz & Böhme, 2021}}
• Calotes wangi {{small|Huang, H.-Y. Li, Wang, M.-J. Li, Hou & Cai, 2024}}
• Calotes zolaiking {{small|Giri, Chaitanya, Mahony, Lalrounga, Lalrinchhana, A. Das, Sarkar, Karanth & Deepak, 2019}} – Mizoram montane forest lizard

Two species formerly treated as members of the genus Calotes were separated into a new genus, Monilesaurus, in 2018.{{cite journal|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4482.3.1|pmid=30313808|title=A systematic revision of Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Western Ghats adds two genera and reveals two new species|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4482|issue=3|pages=401–450|year=2018|last1=Pal|first1=Saunak|author1-link=species:Saunak Pal|last2=Vijayakumar|first2=S.P.|author2-link=species:Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar|last3=Shanker|first3=Kartik|author3-link=species:Kartik Shanker|last4=Jayarajan|first4=Aditi|author4-link=species:Aditi Jayarajan|last5=Deepak|first5=V.|author5-link=species:Veerappan Deepak}}

• Monilesaurus ellioti {{small|Günther, 1864}} – Elliot's forest lizard
• Monilesaurus rouxii {{small|A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837}} – Roux's forest lizard, Roux's forest Calotes

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Calotes.

File:Calotes bachae 183517348 (cropped 2).jpg|C. bachae

File:Calotes emma 3420729.jpg|C. emma

File:Large-scaled forest lizard IMG 1023.jpg|C. grandisquamis

File:Calotes jerdoni P1130608 02.jpg|C. jerdoni

File:Calotes nigrilabris 60068657 (cropped).jpg|C. nigrilabris

File:Oriocalotes paulus.jpg|C. paulus

File:Calotes female.jpg|A female Calotes at Pune, India.

File:Garden Lizard India vs.jpg|A garden lizard, South India.

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• HALLERMANN J, BÖHME W (2000). "A review of the genus Pseudocalotes (Squamata: Agamidae), with description of a new species from West Malaysia". Amphibia-Reptilia 21: 193–210.
• HALLERMANN J (2005). "A taxonomic review of the genus Bronchocela (Squamata: Agamidae), with description of a new species from Vietnam". Russian Journal of Herpetology 12 (3): 167–182.
• MOODY SM (1980). Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeographical relationships of the genera in the family Agamidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia). PhD dissertation. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 373 pp.
• ZUG GR, BROWN HHK, SCHULTE JA II, VINDUM JV (2006). "Systematics of the Garden Lizards, Calotes versicolor Group (Reptilia, Squamata, Agamidae), in Myanmar: Central Dry Zone Populations". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 57 (2): 35–68.

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