All Entries in the "Reptiles" Category
Common House Geckos
Thai: จิ้งจ “ jing-jok” The Common House Gecko, scientific name Hemidactylus frenatus, is a native of southeastern Asia and the northern parts of Africa. Known as the Pacific house gecko, the Asian house gecko, or simply, the house lizard, it is the most recently discovered member of a quartet of small, prolific and aggressive lizards (or Gekkonids) that are nocturnal. They [...]
Indo-Chinese Forest Lizard (Calotes mystaceus)
Calotes mystaceus, the Indo-Chinese Forest Lizard or Blue-crested Lizard, is an agamid lizard found in Southeast Asia. Upper head-scales smooth or feebly keeled, imbricate, scarcely enlarged on supraorbital region; a few small spines on each side of the head above the tympanum; latter measuring at least half the diameter of the orbit. Gular sac small; gular scales feebly keeled, [...]
Oriental garden lizard
Oriental garden lizard The Oriental Garden Lizard, Eastern Garden Lizard or Changeable Lizard (Calotes versicolor) is an agamid lizard found widely distributed in Asia. It has also been introduced in many other parts of the world. It is an insectivore and the male gets a bright red throat in the breeding season leading to a common incorrect name of “Bloodsucker”. Picture [...]
