Calotes farooqi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acrodonta

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

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Draconinae
Genus: Calotes
Species: Calotes farooqi

Name

Calotes farooqi Auffenberg & Rehman, 1995

• Holotype: UF 79470, adult ♂, collected by Pakistan Museum Natural Science field crew on 15 June 1990.
• Type locality: “on shrub on rocky hillside, Shargal [=Sarhan], 20 km S Balakot, Manshera Dist., Northwest Frontier Province (lat. 34.3° N, long. 73.4° E), Pakistan”.

Synonymy

• Calotes versicolor nigrigularis Auffenberg & Rehman, 1993: 24 [preoccupied by Calotes nigrigularis Ota & Hikida, 1991]
• Calotes versicolor farooqi Auffenberg & Rehman, 1995: 27 [nomen novum for Calotes versicolor nigrigularis Auffenberg & Rehman, 1993]
• Calotes farooqi — Gowande et al., 2021: 685 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

References

Primary references

• Auffenberg, W. & Rehman, H. 1993. Studies on Pakistan Reptiles. Pt. 3. Calotes versicolor. Asiatic Herpetological Research 5: 14–30. BHL Reference page. 
• Auffenberg, W. & Rehman, H. 1995. Calotes versicolor nigrigularis Auffenberg and Rehman 1993 a junior primary homonym. Asiatic Herpetological Research 6: 27. BHL 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Calotes farooqi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 December 2021.

Vernacular names

English: Farooq’s Garden Lizard