Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of acrodont agamoid lizards, having the skin of the sides expansible into wing-like organs supported on long spurious ribs, the scales small and ecarinate, the tympanum naked, and femoral pores present. L. sulcatus is a flying-dragon of the Malay peninsula and China, about 20 inches long. Also spelled
Leiolepis .
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Noteworthy species include Calotes liolepis, the rarest of all Agamids on the island, the rare rough-nose horned lizard Ceratophora aspera, restricted to part of Sri Lanka's wet zone, and Ramella palmata, a rare endemic microhylid.
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