Lophocalotes ludekingi

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

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]

L. ludekingi is oviparous.^[1]

1 2 3 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).

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". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 20: 152. ("Lophocalotes Luedekingii [sic]", new combination).
Günther A (1872). "On the Reptiles and Amphibians of Borneo". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872: 586-600 + Plates XXXV–XL. (Lophocalotes interruptus, new species, pp. 593–594 + Plate XXXVII, figure A).
Hallerman J, Orlov N, Ananjeva N (2004). "Notes on distribution and colour pattern of the rare agamid lizard Lophocalotes ludekingii (Bleeker, 1860) in Sumatra (Indonesia)". Salamandra 40 (3–4): 303–306.
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).

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