Rhino-horned lizard

Appearance

The rostral appendage is long, horn-like, about two thirds the length of the snout in males, but is reduced or even absent in females. The dorsum is brownish green or yellowish brown. The tail is marked with 10–16 dark brown crossbands.

Range and habitat

C. Stoddartii is found widespread in montane forests of central Sri Lanka. Localities from that it has been recorded include Nuwara Eliya, Hakgala, Pattipola, Ohiya, Horton Plains National Park, Hewaheta, Dimbula, Agarapathana, Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, Galway's Land National Park, Knuckles, Galaha, Namunukula, Pidurutalagala, Haputale, Balangoda, Maratenna, Loolecondera, Moratiya state forest in Aranayake, Kegalla and Sandaraja Wana Arana in Kegalla. The rhino-horned lizard, also called Stoddart's unicorn lizard and the mountain horned 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 and breeding

The ground is less frequently used by adult C. Stoddartii except for the occasional hunting sprints to catch the escaping prey. Egg laying takes place in July, and clutch size is about 2–5 eggs, each measuring 7.6-8.1 by 13.5–14.5 mm (.31 by.55 inch).

In crisis

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Rhino-horned 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 Rhino-horned lizard, Wikidata item Q1567994. 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.