Calotes versicolor

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acrodonta
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Acrodonta

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Draconinae
Genus: Calotes
Species:

Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802)

Syntypes: MNHN. [lost]
Neotype: NCBS AT102, adult ♂, collected by Anurag Mishra and Zeeshan Mirza on 20 March 2006. [designated by Gowande, Mishra & Mirza (2016: 273), invalidated by Chaitanya, Giri & Deepak (2017: 586), and restored by Gowande et al. (2021: 678)]
Type locality: Unknown; assumed “Pondicherry” by Kuhl (1920) and Smith (1935), later fixed as “Pondicherry University Campus, Kalapet, Pondicherry, India (12.029097° N, 79.850343° E, elevation 34m)” by neotype designation.

Daudin, F.M. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Troisième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 452 pp. + pls. XXVI–XLV. BHL Reference page.
Gowande, G., Mishra, A. & Mirza, Z.A 2016. Neotype designation for Calotes versicolor Daudin, 1802 (Sauria: Agamidae) with notes on its systematics. Zootaxa 4126(2): 271–279. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.7. Reference page.
Chaitanya, R., Giri, V.B. & Deepak, V. 2017. On the recent designation of a neotype for the taxon Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802) (Reptilia: Agamidae). Zootaxa 4317(3): 585–587. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.10. Reference page.
Gowande, G., Pal, S., Jablonski, D., Masroor, R., Phansalkar, P.U., Dsouza, P., Jayarajan, A. & Shanker, K. 2021. Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomic reassessment of the widespread agamid lizard Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802) (Squamata, Agamidae) across South Asia. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 669–696. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e62787 Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Calotes versicolor. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 December 2021.
Wogan, G., Lwin, K., Al Rasbi, K.J.M., Vijayakumar, S.P., Anderson, S., Papenfuss, T., Srinivasulu, C., Litvinchuk, S., Bowles, P., McGuire, J., Cai, B., Ji, X. & Iskandar, D. 2021. IUCN: Calotes versicolor (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T164681A1067033. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T164681A1067033.en. Accessed on 24 June 2025.
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