Some Beautifully coloured Fan-Throated Lizards were remained unnoticed...!

One new genus and five new species of Fan-throated Lizards have been described from India.

The Fan-Throated Lizard (Sitana Ponticeriana) is a species of agamid lizard found in India, Sri Lanka, parts of Pakistan, and also from Bangladesh. The species is found mostly on the ground in open patches in thin forests.

After sampled 81 locations, covering 160,000 km² of in Peninsular India, the team of young zoologists V. Deepak, Varad Giri, Mohammad Asif, Shushil Kumar Dutta, Raju Vyas, Amod Zambre, Harshal Bhosale and Praveen Karanth noted down two known and five previously undescribed species. Among these five species, three belong to the genus Sitana, while two belong to a new genus named Sarada by V. Deepak.

During Displays, males of the genus Sitana bob their heads up-down, while those of Sarada shakes left-right. After the new discoveries of the team, there are 7 species of Fan-Throated Lizards from India.

For more information, you can go through the paper from the following link:

http://www.contributionstozoology.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=ctz;idno=8501a04