Boulenger's tree agama

Boulenger's tree agama (Dendragama boulengeri) is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Sumatra.<ref name=RDB/>

Etymology

Both the specific name, boulengeri, and the common name, Boulenger's tree agama, are in honor of Belgian-born British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.<ref>Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Dendragama boulengeri, p. 33).</ref>

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of D. boulengeri is forest, at altitudes of Template:Cvt.<ref name=iucn/>

Description

Dorsally, D. boulengeri is bluish green, with blackish crossbars. Ventrally it is pinkish, with brown spots. It may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of Template:Convert, with a tail length of Template:Convert.<ref>de Rooij N (1915). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xiv + 384 pp. (Dendragama boulengeri, pp. 118–119, Figure 52).</ref>

Behavior

D. boulengeri is arboreal and diurnal.<ref name=iucn/>

Reproduction

D. boulengeri is oviparous.<ref name=RDB/> Clutch size is two to four eggs, and the female lays more than one clutch per year.<ref name=iucn/>

Further reading

• de Rooij N (1915). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xiv + 384 pp. (Dendragama boulengeri, pp. 118–119, Figure 52).
• Doria G (1888). "Note erpetologiche I. Alcuni nuovi sauri raccolti in Sumatra dal D.re O. Beccari ". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Seconda [Series 2] 6: 646–652. (Dendragama, new genus, p. 649; D. boulengeri, new species, pp. 649–651). (in Italian).
• Manthey U, Grossmann W (1997). Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens. Münster: Natur und Tier Verlag. 512 pp. Template:ISBN. (Dendragama boulengeri, p. 167). (in German).

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