''Bronchocela danieli'', also known commonly as Daniel's bloodsucker and Daniel's forest lizard, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of lizard in the

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

Agamidae Agamidae is a family containing 582 species in 64 genera of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few locations in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Overview Phylogenetically ...

. The species is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Campbell Bay,

Great Nicobar Island Great Nicobar is the southernmost and largest of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra. It is part of India, in the Nicobar district within the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. History The Nicobar Island has been ...

, India.

Etymology

The

specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...

, ''danieli'', is in honor of Indian

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

Jivanayakam Cyril "J.C." Daniel. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Bronchocela danieli'', p. 65).

Habitat

The preferred natural

habitat In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ...

of ''B. danieli'' is forest.

Behavior

''B. danieli'' is

arboreal Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally (scansorial), but others are exclusively arboreal. The hab ...

Reproduction (babies)

''B. danieli'' is

oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno ...

. They are colour changing according to their surroundings.

References

* Biswas S (1984). "Some notes on the reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands". ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 81 (2): 476–481. * Das I (1999). "Biogeography of the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". pp. 43–77. ''In'': Ota H (editor) (1999). ''Tropical Island Herpetofauna: Origin, Current Diversity, and Conservation''. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. 353 pp. . * Murthy TSN (1990). "A Field Book of the Lizards of India". ''Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Papers'' (15): 1–122. * Sharma RC (2002). ''Fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Reptilia (Sauria)''. Kolkata

Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...

Zoological Survey of India. * Tikader BK, Sharma RC (1992). ''Handbook of Indian Lizards''. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India. * Tiwari KK, Biswas S (1973). "Two new reptiles from the great Nicobar Islands". ''Journal of the Zoological Society of India'' 25: 57–63. (''Calotes danieli'', new species).

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