Sitana bahiri (Bahir's fan-throated lizard) is an
endemicspecies of
agamidlizards recently found from
Sri Lanka.[2][3] The species was first found from
Yala national park.[4] The species was named in honor of M.M Bahir, who is one of a leading wildlife conservationist of Sri Lanka.
Descriptions
The species was considered mainly as a subspecies or a color variation of much broader distributed Sitana ponticeriana. The lizard can be found in open scrub jungles.
^Amarasinghe, AA; Ineich, I; Karunarathna, DM; Botejue, WM; Campbell, PD (2015). "Two new species of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Sri Lanka, including a taxonomic revision of the Indian Sitana species". Zootaxa. 3915: 67–98.
doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.3915.1.3.
PMID25662111.