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Crested Tree Lizard
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Photo Information |
Copyright: Geoffrey Summers (summers) (705) |
Genre: Animals |
Medium: Color |
Date Taken: 2016-12-19 |
Categories: Reptiles |
Camera: Nikon D7000, Nikon 18-105mm VR |
Exposure: f/11, 1/200 seconds |
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Photo Version: Original Version |
Date Submitted: 2016-12-19 8:47 |
Viewed: 1502 |
Points: 4 |
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[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Agamid lizard, AKA Garden fence lizard, Crested tree lizard, etc, Calotes versicolor (Daudin 1802). According the Ni,k V Cole, A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Mauritius pp 49-50, an Asian lizard deliberately introduced to Mauritius from Reunion about AD 1900.
This one, in our garden this afternoon, kept unusually still for a few moments before it fled up the tree. |
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