Lophocalotes ludekingi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Genus: | Lophocalotes |
| Species: | L. ludekingi
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| Binomial name | |
| Lophocalotes ludekingi (Bleeker, 1860)
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Lophocalotes ludekingi, called commonly the crested lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Sumatra, Indonesia.[1]
Etymology
The specific name, ludekingi, is in honor of Dutch physician E.W.A. Ludeking, who collected specimens for the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden.[2]
Reproduction
References
Wikispecies has information related to Lophocalotes ludekingi.
- ^ a b c Lophocalotes ludekingi. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lophocalotes ludekingi, p. 162).
Further reading
- Bleeker P (1860). "Reptiliën van Agam ". Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 20: 325-329. (Calotes ludekingi, new species, pp. 326–327). (in Dutch).
- Boulenger GA (1887). "Note on some Reptiles from Sumatra described by Bleeker in 1860". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series 20: 152. ("Lophocalotes Luedekingii [sic]", new combination).
- Günther A (1872). "On the Reptiles and Amphibians of Borneo". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 586-600. (Lophocalotes, new genus, p. 593).
- de Rooij N (1915). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xiv + 384 pp. (Lophocalotes ludekingi, pp. 116–117, Figure 51).