Leiolepis boehmei explained
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.
Etymology
The specific name, boehmei, is in honor of German herpetologist Wolfgang Böhme.[1]
Geographic range
L. boehmei is found in southern Thailand.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of L. boehmei is coastal areas with beach forest or sand dunes.
Description
Medium-sized for its genus, L. boehmei may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 12cm (05inches). The tail is long, slightly more than twice SVL. Dorsally, it is dark olive. Ventrally, it is grayish.[2]
Behavior
L. boehmei is terrestrial and fossorial.
Reproduction
L. boehmi is a unisexual, all female, diploid species, which reproduces by parthenogenesis.
Further reading
- Chanard T, Parr JWK, Nabhitabhata J (2015). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. New York: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. (hardcover), (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.
Notes and References
- [Richard Allen "Bo" Crombet-Beolens|Beolens B]
- [Ilya Darevsky|Darevsky]
