Facts about oriental garden lizard
Oriental garden lizard 🦎 1. Scientific name: Calotes versicolor 2. Common name : Oriental garden lizard 3. Conservation status: Least Concern 4. Size: 10 cm (snout to vent) and total length including tail is up to 37.5 cm. 5. General informations: • A harmless, non poisonous little lizard that keeps our gardens pest free by eating insects. • Unlike some other lizards, they do not use their tails (autonomy) and their tails can be very long, stiff and pointy. • They are oviparous, 10-20 are laid and are buried in moist soil. Hatching period is about 6 to 7 weeks. • 39 to 43 series of scales round the middle of the trunk. • Both male and females have crest from head to tail so they are often called “crested lizard”. 6. Some Common questions about oriental garden lizards: • Are oriental garden lizards harmful to humans? While they are often called bloodsuckers (roktochosha in Bengali), oriental garden lizards do not suck blo...
