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Oriental Garden Lizard

Calotes versicolor

Photo by SeanWeekly
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Field Notes

Description:

The Oriental Garden Lizard is also known as the “Changeable Lizard”, due to its wide variation in coloration and ability to change colors significantly during the breeding season.

Species ID Suggestions

Changeable Lizard

Calotes versicolor

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Comments (9)
SandraH
great shot! wonderful pose!
SeanWeekly
Sally, thank you very much for the ID! :)
sallyjomonster
Because of the colour it seems more likely that this is a Changeable (or Oriental Garden) Lizard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_garden_lizard
SeanWeekly
Ha ha yeah he was chilling right under the Sun, lets hope he didnt get burnt.
AnnvanWijgerden
He's lovely. Looks he's getting a suntan. (That's probably why he's not so green!) :-)

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