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Spiny Lizards
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Spiny Lizards

Salea

Salea is a genus of arboreal, slow-moving, diurnal, insectivorous, egg-laying agamid lizards endemic to the Western Ghats of South India. It has two species, each inhabiting very high mountainous tracts of the Western Ghats in the Shola forest ecosystems.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Anaimalai Spiny Lizard

speciesSalea anamallayana

Horsfield's Spiny Lizard

speciesSalea horsfieldii

Indian Bush Agama

speciesSalea gularis

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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 31386.