Pseudocalotes
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Cygnis insignis
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[[Category:Agama]] to [[Category:Agamidae]]
{{Taxobox
| name = Pseudocalotes
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Reptile|Reptilia]]
| ordo = [[Squamata]]
| familia = [[Agamidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Draconinae]]
| genus = '''''Pseudocalotes'''''
}}
''Pseudocalotes'' was disassociated from ''Calotes'' by Moody (1980). ''Pseudocalotes'' is distinguished from ''Calotes'' in having weak limbs as may be noted in some of the species names ''brevipes''. It is distinguished from the ''C. versicolor'' group in having mixed orientation of dorsal scales, and lacking spines on the head. It is distinguished from ''Bronchocela'' in lacking a cheek [[skin fold]], and in having short weak limbs. They do not have any enlarged compressed set of scales behind the orbit.''Pseudocalotes'' does not occur west of Sumatra and might occur in the Isthumus of Kra and Myanmar. A speicmen was reported from N.E. India in the past though never verified.
==Classification of genus ''Pseudocalotes''==
*''[[Pseudocalotes brevipes]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes dringi]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes flavigula]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes floweri]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes larutensis]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes microlepis]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes poilani]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes saravacensis]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes sumatrana]]''
*''[[Pseudocalotes tympanistriga]]''
==References==
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*HALLERMANN, J. AND W. BÖHME. 2000. A review of the genus Pseudocalotes (Squamata: Agamidae), with description of a new species from West Malaysia. Amphibia-Reptilia. 21: 193 – 210.
*MOODY, S.M. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeographical relationships of the genera in the family Agamidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia). PhD dissertation. University of Michigan.
*SMITH, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma: Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol II: Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London.
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