Critically Endangered
Ceratophora erdeleni
Ceratophora erdeleni
Ceratophora erdeleni is a lizard or snake in the family Agamidae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The rostral appendage is oval and rudimentary (less than 18% snout length), and occasionally missing in both sexes. The dorsum is yellow, light brown, or reddish brown in color, with 17 broad dark brown crossbands on the body and tail that are separated by light narrow interspaces. The venter is yellowish green.
Range and habitat
C. Erdeleni is known only from Morningside Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka at an elevation of 1,060 m (3,480 ft). C. Erdeleni inhabits rainforests in the midhills and is arboreal and diurnal. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
An adult female of C. Erdeleni may produce 2 to 3 eggs at a time, each egg measuring 7.2 mm × 13.7 mm (0.28 in × 0.54 in).
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Ceratophora erdeleni is Critically 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 Ceratophora erdeleni, Wikidata item Q2946377. 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.
