A
Southern Forest Crested Lizard,
also known as Emma Gray's Forest Lizard and with the
scientific name Calotes emma
emma, spotted near Khao Sok National Park in
Surat Thani,
in southern Thailand.
It is one of two
subspecies of
Forest
Crested Lizard, an
agamid lizard with the
Latin name
Calotes emma.
In
Thai, this subspecies is
known as
king kah kaew tai, i.e.
‘southern crystal lizard’.
Southern Forest
Crested Lizard
It is soft greenish and grey, with dark bars, and
like the
Northern Forest
Crested Lizard (fig.),
it has a spike above
each eye and two spikes above the tympanum, but larger
ones than those of its northern counterpart.