Calotes manamendrai
Habitat
About 1,000m above sea level
Range
Endemic to Sri Lanka; one site, Riverstone, northern Knuckles
Manamendra-Arachchi's whistling lizard is an agamid endemic to Sri Lanka, recorded from a single site at Riverstone on the northern face of the Knuckles Mountain Range, about 1,000 m above sea level. It is named for the herpetologist Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi. Diagnostic features include keeled dorsal scales, midgular scales smaller than the rest of the throat scales, seven distinct stripes on each side of the throat, and a blackish shoulder pit (Wikipedia, general species account).
No ecology was found for this entry, and no national Red List category was found.