Pseudocalotes was disassociated from Calotes by Moody (1980). Pseudocalotes is distinguished from Calotes in having weak limbs as may be noted in some of the species names brevipes. It is distinguished from the C. versicolor group in having mixed orientation of dorsal scales, and lacking spines on the head. It is distinguished from Bronchocela in lacking a cheek skin fold, and in having short weak limbs. They do not have any enlarged compressed set of scales behind the orbit.Pseudocalotes does not occur west of Sumatra and might occur in the Isthmus of Kra and Myanmar. A specimen was reported from N.E. India in the past though never verified.
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Classification of genus Pseudocalotes
the Indochinese group
- Pseudocalotes austeniana (Smith, 1935)
- Pseudocalotes brevipes (Werner, 1904) northern Vietnam
- Pseudocalotes floweri (Boulenger, 1912) eastern Thailand and Cambodia
- Pseudocalotes kakhienensis (Anderson, 1879)
- Pseudocalotes khaonanensis Chan-ard, Cota, Makchai and Laoteow, 2008 Nakhon Si Thammarat peninsular Thailand
- Pseudocalotes kingdonwardi (Smith, 1935)
- Pseudocalotes microlepis (Boulenger, 1888) northern Tenasserim, Burma, northern and western Thailand, northern Laos and southern China
- Pseudocalotes poilani (Bourret, 1939) southern Laos
- Pseudocalotes ziegleri Hallermann, Truong, Orlov and Ananjeva, 2010 Vietnam
- Pseudocalotes sp. nov. northern Thailand
Pseudocalotes andamanensis Andaman Islands
the Sundaland group
- Pseudocalotes dringi (Hallermann and Böhme, 2000) peninsular Malaysia
- Pseudocalotes flavigula (Smith, 1924) peninsular Malaysia
- Pseudocalotes larutensis Hallermann and McGuire, 2001 peninsular Malaysia
- Pseudocalotes saravacensis Inger and Stuebing, 1994 Sarawak, eastern Malaysia
- Pseudocalotes sumatrana (Hubrecht, 1879) Sumatra and Java, Indonesia
- Pseudocalotes tympanistriga, Lesser Tree Agama (Gray, 1831) Java, Indonesia
References
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- HALLERMANN, J. and MCGUIRE, J. A. 2001.A new species of Pseudocalotes from Bukit Larut, West Malaysia. Herpetologica, 57(3), 255-265.
- MOODY, S.M. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeographical relationships of the genera in the family Agamidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia). PhD dissertation. University of Michigan.
- SMITH, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma: Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol II: Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London.
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- Hallermann, J. , Truong, N.Q. , Orlov, N. & Ananjeva, N. 2010. a new species of the Genus Pseudocalotes (Squamata: Agamidae) from Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology. 17 (1), 31 – 40 Full article.
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