Endangered
Spineless forest lizard
Calotes liocephalus
Spineless forest lizard is a lizard or snake in the family Agamidae — Calotes liocephalus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Spineless forest lizard grows to 91 mm (3.6 in) in snout–vent length and 33 cm (13 in) in total length. This lizard is patterned with a mixture of pale moss-green, dark green and brown indistinct stripes on its body, extending from the back down the sides to the belly, and pale moss-green and dark brown to black rings around its limbs and tail. This cryptic colouration helps camouflage the small lizard from potential predators in the treetops of its habitat.
Range and habitat
The spineless forest lizard, crestless lizard or lionhead agama is a lizard in the family Agamidae.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Highly arboreal, very rarely comes to the ground, this species is known to be diurnal. Feed on insects and other small animals, although a few also feed on plant matter as adults.
In crisis
Spineless forest lizard is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Spineless forest lizard, Wikidata item Q687965. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
