Leiolepis boehmei

Leiolepis boehmei, also known commonly as Böhme's butterfly lizard and Böhmes Schmetterlingsagame in German, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Thailand.

Leiolepis boehmei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Leiolepis
Species:
L. boehmei
Binomial name
Leiolepis boehmei
Darevsky & Kupriyanova, 1993

Etymology

The specific name, boehmei, is in honor of German herpetologist Wolfgang Böhme.[2]

Geographic range

L. boehmei is found in southern Thailand.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. boehmei is coastal areas with beach forest or sand dunes.[1]

Description

Medium-sized for its genus, L. boehmei may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 12 cm (4.7 in). The tail is long, slightly more than twice SVL. Dorsally, it is dark olive. Ventrally, it is grayish.[4]

Behavior

L. boehmei is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]

Reproduction

L. boehmi is a unisexual, all female, diploid species, which reproduces by parthenogenesis.[3]

References

  1. Duengkae P, Sumontha M, Trivalarait P, Cota M, Thaksintham W (2018). "Leiolepis boehmei ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T99931118A99931123. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/99931118/99931123. Downloaded on 20 December 2020.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leiolepis boehmei, p. 30).
  3. Leiolepis boehmei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 28 April 2021.
  4. Darevsky & Kupriyanova (1993).

Further reading

  • Chanard T, Parr JWK, Nabhitabhata J (2015). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. New York: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-973649-2 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-973650-8 (paperback). (Leiolepis boehmei, p. 101).
  • Darevsky IS, Kupriyanova LA (1993). "Two new all-female lizard species of the genus Leiolepis Cuvier, 1829 from Thailand and Vietnam (Squamata: Sauria: Uromastycinae)". Herpetozoa 6 (1–2): 3–20. (Leiolepis boehmei, new species, pp. 4–8, Figure 1). (in English, with an abstract in German).
  • Grismer JL, Bauer AM, Grismer LL, Thirakhupt K, Aowphol A, Oaks JR, Wood PL, Onn CK, Thy N, Cota M, Jackman T (2014). "Multiple origins of parthenogenesis, and a revised species phylogeny for the Southeast Asian butterfly lizards, Leiolepis ". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113 (4): 1080–1093.



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