Specimen from Semenggoh Forest, Sarawak, Borneo.
Searching for insects on the rotting trunk of a dying tree, Singapore.
Specimen from Temenggor Lake, northern Peninsular Malaysia.
Specimen from Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo.
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A stunning species, the
Green Crested Lizard inhabits primary and secondary forest, but can also be
found in disturbed areas and parklands. The body colour is bright green,
sometimes with a bluish tinge on the head. When threatened the body colour
can become more brown. Males have an attractive neck crest. The tail makes
up over 75 percent of its total length.
This lizard is known to occur in Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia,
Singapore, Philippines (the southern islands including Mindanao and
Palawan), Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and other parts of Eastern
Indonesia, and Java. It is absent from Bali.
In Singapore its
abundance is in decline, possibly due to competition from the introduced
Changeable Lizard Calotes versicolor.
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