Draco maculatus

{{Short description|Species of lizard}} {{speciesbox | image = Draco maculatus 60480705 (cropped).jpg | image_caption = ''Draco maculatus'' in Thailand | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{Cite journal | author = Manthey, U. & Stuart, B.L. | name-list-style=amp | title = ''Draco maculatus'' | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2010 | page = e.T170396A6775905 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2010 | url = https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/170396/6775905 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T170396A6775905.en | access-date = 29 April 2021| doi-access = free }}</ref> | genus = Draco | species = maculatus | authority = (Gray, 1845) | synonyms = *''Dracunculus maculatus'' Gray, 1845 *''Draco maculatus'' — Cantor, 1847 *''Draco haasei'' Boettger, 1893 *''Draco maculatus'' — Boulenger, 1885<ref name="RDB">The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> | range_map = Draco maculatus distribution.png }}

'''''Draco maculatus''''', commonly known as the '''spotted flying dragon''' or '''spotted gliding lizard''', is a species of agamid flying lizard endemic to Southeast Asia. It is capable of gliding from tree to tree.

==Description== Head small; snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit; nostril lateral, directed outwards; tympanum scaly. Upper head-scales unequal, strongly keeled; a compressed prominent scale on the posterior part of the superciliary region; 7 to 11 upper labials. The male's gular appendage very large, always much longer than the head, and frequently twice as long; female also with a well-developed but smaller gular sac. Male with a very small nuchal crest. Dorsal scales but little larger than the ventrals, irregular, smooth or very feebly keeled; on each side of the back a series of large trihedral keeled distant scales. The fore limb stretched forwards reaches beyond the tip of the snout; the adpressed hind limb reaches a little beyond the elbow of the adpressed fore limb, or to the axilla. Greyish above, with more or less distinct darker markings; a more or less distinct darker interorbital spot; wing-membranes above with numerous small round black spots, which are seldom confluent, beneath immaculate or with a few black spots; a blue spot on each side of the base of the gular appendage.<ref name="Blgr1890">Boulenger GA. 1890. ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (''Draco maculatus'', p. 112).</ref>

From snout to vent length, {{convert|82|mm|in|abbr=on}}; tail, {{convert|115|mm|in|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Blgr1890"/>

==Subspecies== The following four subspecies (or races) are recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies:<ref name="RDB"/>

*''Draco maculatus divergens'' Taylor, 1934: NW Thailand; type locality = "Chiang Mai, N Siam"; restricted to "Doi Suthep Mountain" by Taylor, 1963. *''Draco maculatus haasei'' Boettger, 1893: E Thailand, Cambodia, S Vietnam; type locality = "Chantaboon, Siam". *''Draco maculatus maculatus'' (Gray, 1845) *''Draco maculatus whiteheadi'' Boulenger, 1900: N Vietnam, Hainan; type locality = "Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan".

==Geographic range== From Assam and Yunnan to Singapore.

Southern China (Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), India (E. Himalayas to Assam), Bangladesh (Satchari National Park, Sylhet), Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and W. Malaysia.

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==References== * Boettger O. 1893. "''Ein neuer Drache'' (Draco) ''aus Siam''". ''Zool. Anz.'' '''16''': 429-430. * Boulenger GA. 1885. ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ, Eublepharidæ, Uroplatidæ, Pygopodidæ, Agamidæ''. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I- XXXII. (''Draco maculatus'', pp. 262–263). * Boulenger GA. 1900. "On the reptiles, batrachians (and fishes) collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead in the interior of Hainan". ''Proc. Zool. Soc. London'' '''1899''': 956-959. * Cantor TE. 1847. "Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands". ''J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal'' [Calcutta] '''16''' (2): 607-656, 897-952, 1026–1078. * Gray JE. 1845. ''Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum''. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxvii + 289 pp. (''Dracunculus maculatus'', p. 236). * Günther A. 1861. "Second list of Siamese reptiles". ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.'', Third Series '''8''': 266-268. * McGuire, Jimmy A.; Heang, Kiew Bong. 2001. "Phylogenetic systematics of Southeast Asian flying lizards (Iguania: Agamidae: ''Draco'') as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data". ''Biological Journal of the Linnean Society'' '''72''': 203-229. * Smith MA. 1935. ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (''Draco maculatus'', pp. 138–140, Figure 42 + Figure 41 A on p. 136).

==External links== * {{NRDB species|genus=Draco|species=maculatus}} * https://web.archive.org/web/20051203120649/http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/myanmar/checklist_lizards.html * http://www.ecologyasia.com/html-menu/species-list.htm

Category:Reptiles of Southeast Asia Category:Lizards of Thailand maculatus Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray Category:Reptiles described in 1845