Sitana devakai Amarasinghe, Ineich & Karunarathna 2015

Sitana devakai (Devaka's fan-throated lizard) is an endemic species of agamid lizards recently found from Sri Lanka.^[1][2][3] The species was first found from Puttalama district.^[4] The lizard is also known to found in Tamil Nadu of India, but not given valid identification. The species was named in honor of Dr. Devaka K. Weerakoon, who is a conservation biologist. He is a Professor of Zoology in University of Colombo.

Descriptions

The species was considered mainly as a subspecies or a color variation of much broader distributed Sitana ponticeriana. The lizard can be found in open scrub jungles.

Cited references

Other references

• Lanka newsline
• https://window2nature.wordpress.com/2015/03/

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Sitana devakai est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Agamidae^[1].

Répartition

Cette espèce se rencontre au Sri Lanka et au Tamil Nadu en Inde^[1].

Étymologie

Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Devaka Keerthi Weerakoon^[1].

Publication originale

• Amarasinghe, Ineich & Karunarathna, Botejue & Campbell, 2015 : Two new species of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Sri Lanka, including a taxonomic revision of the Indian Sitana species. Zootaxa, n^o 3915 (1), p. 67–98.

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