Lophocalotes

Lophocalotes
Lophocalotes ludekingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Subfamily:	Draconinae
Genus:	Lophocalotes Günther,[1] 1872
Species:	L. ludekingi
Binomial name
Lophocalotes ludekingi (Bleeker, 1860)
Synonyms[2]
Calotes ludekingi Bleeker, 1860 Lophocalotes interruptus Günther, 1872 Lophocalotes Luedekingii [sic] — Boulenger, 1887 Lophocalotes ludekingi — de Rooij, 1915

Lophocalotes is a genus of agamid lizard, containing a single species, Lophocalotes ludekingi, endemic to Sumatra, Indonesia, commonly called the crested lizard.^[2]

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.^[3]

References

1. "Lophocalotes ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Iguania/agamidae.
2. Lophocalotes ludekingi. The Reptile Database.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 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).