| 词条 | Hardwicke's bloodsucker |
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| name = Hardwicke's bloodsucker | image = Brachysaura minor.jpg | genus = Calotes | species = minor | authority = (Hardwicke & Gray, 1827) | range_map = Brachysaura minor distribution.png | synonyms = Agama minor Hardwicke & Gray 1827: 218 Brachysaura ornata Blyth 1856 Charasia ornata Boulenger 1885 Acanthosaura minor Boulenger 1890 Agama minor Smith 1935 Laudakia minor Das 1996 Agama minor Wermuth 1967 Brachysaura minor Manthey & Schuster 1999 }} Hardwicke's bloodsucker (Calotes minor) is an agamid lizard and found in South Asia. MorphologyPhysical Structure: This is a small stocky and pot-belly lizard with a short tail. Its head large and elongated, flat above, sloping towards snout.[1] Its dorsal scales larger, strongly imbricate and keeled, pointing backward and upward, ventral scales smaller than dorsal; upper head scales larger, unequal, strongly keeled or tubercular.[2] Females are larger than the males.[3]Color Pattern: Dorsal color is olive-brown with 3 rows of dark-brown light edged spots on the back and base of the tail; spots of middle row are most prominent and rhomboidal; a white streak on each side of the neck is bifurcating behind and an oblique one from the eye to the angle of mouth; limbs are with dark-brown cross bars; throat is profusely spotted with dark-brown and orange; belly is yellowish-white with numerous orange dots.[4] Color inside the mouth is ink-blue.[5] Females are more brilliantly colored during breeding season.[6]Length: Maximum:18 cm,[7] Common:10 cm. (Snout to vent 6 cm.).[8]Maximum published weight: ? g. DistributionFound in Bangladesh (south-east part of the country), India (Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Odissa) and Pakistan (Sindh). Vernacular namesBengali: আগামা গিরিগিটি, পাতি রক্তচোষা, পাতিয়াল গিরিগিটি (Patial girigiti), হার্ডউইকের গিরিগিটি। English: Dwarf rock agama, Hardwicke's bloodsucker, Hardwicke's short-tail agama and Lesser agama. Hindi & Indian other Languages: ? Urdu & Sindhi: ? HabitatThis lizard is Terrestrial & sometimes arboreal; inhabits in frequently fragmented dry forest, arid environments, barren desert and desolate areas across the Indo-Gangetic plains.[9] HabitThis lizard is diurnal & crepuscular. It shelters in burrows close to the roots of thorny bushes.[10] Generally it is found sitting on stones, but it can climb up shrubby vegetation. It is sluggish in movements, often not attempting to escape when approached.[11] It is a docile species.[12] DietThis lizard is mainly insectivorous; feeds on grasshoppers and their nymphs, earwigs, beetles, bugs, arthropods and spiders.[13] Sometimes it also eats flowers.[14] ReproductionThis lizard is oviparous; breeding season extends from April to June; lays 4-6 hard shelled white eggs in burrows under the roots of vegetation.[15] Importance & UsesThere is no known practical uses of this species but play rolls in Eco-system by eating various types of insects and otherwise. Threat to humansThis lizard is non-venomous and completely harmless to humans.[16] IUCN threat statusData deficient (DD).[17] EtymologyThe species-name minor, a Latin word, meaning ‘less’ or ‘smaller’, also referring to the smaller size of this agamid.[18] Extra NotesThis lizard has a bad reputation for being particularly harmful, which is totally baseless and unfortunately contributed much to its depletion.[19] References1. ^http://www.pakwildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Artical-6.pdf 2. ^http://snakes.mpsbb.info/33.html 3. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 4. ^http://snakes.mpsbb.info/33.html 5. ^http://www.landofthewild.com/showPic.php?&albumId=276&albumTitle=Reptiles&picId=1173&picTitle=Lesser%20Agama 6. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 7. ^http://www.pakwildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Artical-6.pdf 8. ^http://www.pakwildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Artical-6.pdf 9. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 10. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 11. ^http://snakes.mpsbb.info/33.html 12. ^http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/hpg/007/index.pdf 13. ^http://snakes.mpsbb.info/33.html 14. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 15. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 16. ^http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/sfs/007/index.pdf 17. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 18. ^https://www.google.com/search?q=Etymology+of+minor+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 19. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/ 20. ^http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/
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