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Southern Green calotes

Calotes calotes

Description:

Grass green colour with lateral cream white stripes. Scales at back point backwards and upwards.

Habitat:

Arboreal.Found in gardens,hedges,forest and scrubland

Notes:

The lizard had dug a pit and it was laying eggs.It laid around 15 eggs.then it covered the pit with soil and leafs. Then the pit was indistinguishable from the surroundings

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4 Comments

Jinga
Jinga 11 years ago

WOW!

BennJamin
BennJamin 11 years ago

amazing

Arun
Arun 11 years ago

nice capture ... Welcome to our mission 'Tamilnadu Biodiversity' !!

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

What a great capture! You could also add this to the Eggs of the world mission
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8022...

Gladwinjohn
Spotted by
Gladwinjohn

Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on May 2, 2011
Submitted on Jun 12, 2012

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