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Bay Island Lizards
Coryphophylax
Coryphophylax is an agamid genus endemic to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and a sister of the Southeast Asian Aphaniotis. Found in tropical wet forests, they are common in suitable habitats and shows variations across islands and are sexually dimorphic. The genus is absent on Great Nicobar Island, with its southern most occurrence on the Island of Kondul. The Tsunami of December 2004 may have affected island wise distributions in the Nicobar Islands of several species...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Short-crested Bay Island Forest Lizard
speciesCoryphophylax subcristatus
Short-tailed Bay Island Forest Lizard
speciesCoryphophylax brevicauda
Southern Nicobar Forest Lizard
speciesCoryphophylax maximiliani
Car Nicobar Forest Agama
speciesCoryphophylax krishnani
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 31210.