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The Oriental Garden Lizard, Eastern Garden Lizard or Changeable Lizard

Calotes versicolor

Description:

The ground-colour is generally a light brownish olive, but the lizard can change it to bright red, to black, and to a mixture of both. This change is sometimes confined to the head, at other times diffused over the whole body and tail. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_ga......) Habitat:

Habitat:

It is an agamid lizard found widely distributed in Asia. It has also been introduced in many other parts of the world.

Notes:

I found this in Alathur, Palakkad District, Kerala, India

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4 Comments

VincentVanur
VincentVanur 11 years ago

I did not understand what you meant by that. Thank you anyway, notnoahbell.

notnoahbell
notnoahbell 11 years ago

Lisard

VincentVanur
VincentVanur 11 years ago

Thank you, Joshua Asel

Josh Asel
Josh Asel 11 years ago

This is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing :)

VincentVanur
Spotted by
VincentVanur

Kerala, India

Spotted on Aug 13, 2012
Submitted on Jan 23, 2013

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