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.
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Scientific 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 | |
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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
- 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.
- 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).
- Leiolepis boehmei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 28 April 2021.
- 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.