Calotes manamendrai
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| name = Manamendra-Arachchi’s whistling lizard
| genus = Calotes
| species = manamendrai
| authority = Amarasinghe & Karunarathna, 2014{{cite journal |author=Amarasinghe, A.A. Thasun |author2=D.M.S. Suranjan Karunarathna |author3=J. Fujinuma |name-list-style=amp |year=2014 |title=A new Calotes species from Sri Lanka with a redescription of Calotes liolepis Boulenger, 1885 |journal=Herpetologica |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=323–338 |doi=10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-13-00087|s2cid=86726705 }}
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Calotes manamendrai (Manamendra-Arachchi's whistling lizard) is an agamid lizard endemic to Sri Lanka.{{NRDB species|genus=Calotes|species=manamendrai|accessdate=6 January 2015}} Locally known as මනමේන්ද්ර-ආරච්චිගේ උරුවන් කටුස්සා (Manamendra-Arachchigë Uruwan Katussa).
Etymology
Description
Female with non enlarged pectoral scales. Dorsal scales keeled. Midgular scales smaller than the rest of the throat scales. Seven distinct stripes found on each side on gular area. Shoulder pit blackish.{{cite web |url=http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2016/12/2014-calotes-manamendrai.html |title=A New Calotes Species from Sri Lanka with a Redescription of Calotes liolepis Boulenger, 1885|publisher=Novataxa|accessdate=3 February 2019}}
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Category:Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Category:Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka
Category:Reptiles described in 2014
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