Research on Agamids

Current task for Biodiversity & Conservation: a comprehensive encyclopaedia article on a 'large-scale evolutionary clade' of my choice.

I am to cover the points on the niche, speciation, phylogeny, distribution, extinctions, imbalance in distribution of subtaxa among taxa, and generally the evolutionary ecology of the clade.

My choice?

The Agamidae family of lizards (representing ~381 species at of January 2005), which includes my favourites the Changeable lizard Calotes versicolor, the Green-crested lizard Bronchocela cristatella and the Common flying dragon Draco volans.

Finally, I get to do something with the reptiles closer to home.


^{Male Changeable lizard, female Changeable lizard, Green-crested lizard, Common flying dragon}

posted by Husky @ 2/28/2006 02:00:00 AM  |