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Eublepharis macularius
( blyth )
Type locality
Salt Range, Punjab and Kirthar in the Sind Province of Pakistan.
Distribution
From eastern Afghanistan south of the Hindu Kush and the Nortwest Frontier
Provinces and apparently generally through out Pakistan south to Rajputana
and the Khandesh District of India.
Color Pattern
Dorsal color of adults light to dark brown, often with tinge of pink,
dorsum with blue-black spots, head large, wide, distinct from neck,
snout bluntly pointed; ear opening with tubercles; body rather robust,
slightly well-developed; hind limbs reaching to shoulder; tails shorter
than snout, in the adult animals the regenerated portion is very fleshy
and bulbous; dorsal tubercles conical, irregularly arranged on body.
Juveniles dark brown to black dorsally, with two or three wide
yellow bars across trunk the traces of which remain visible even in
the young adults.
Size
The size of this fairly common species is arround 15.8 cm in S-V length
for males the females are slightly smaller.
Habitat
They are found in hard hard clay soil strewn with sand where there are
numerous bushes of Zygophyllum. Also found on fairly open alluvial soil
in rocks and crevices in Pakistan.
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