Draco maculatus is an agamid

Agamidae

Agamids, lizards of the family Agamidae, include more than 300 species in Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Phylogenetically they may be sister to the Iguanidae, and have a similar appearance. Agamids usually have...

 flying lizard

Flying lizard

- Animal :Flying lizard can refer to species of lizard that move by gliding between trees. They are contained by Draco :*Draco blanfordii*Draco maculatus*Draco norvillii*Draco volans- Motor Racing :...

 capable of gliding from tree to tree found in parts of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...

. It is commonly named the Spotted Flying Dragon.

Description

Head small; snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit; nostril lateral, directed outwards ; tympanum scaly. Upper head-scales unequal, strongly keeled; a compressed prominent scale on the posterior part of the superciliary region; 7 to 11 upper labials. The male's gular appendage very large, always much longer than the bead, and frequently twice as long ; female also with a well-developed but smaller gular sac. Male with a very small nuchal crest. Dorsal scales but little larger than the ventrals, irregular, smooth or very feebly keeled; on each side of the back a series of large trihedral keeled distant scales. The fore limb stretched forwards reaches beyond the tip of the snout; the adpressed hind limb reaches a little beyond the elbow of the adpressed fore limb, or to the axilla. Greyish above, with more or less distinct darker markings; a more or less distinct darker mterorbital spot; wing-membranes above with numerous small round black spots, which are seldom confluent, beneath immaculate or with a few black epots; a blue spot on each side of the base of the gular appendage.

From snout to vent 3.25 inches ; tail 4.5.

Three races are noted

• divergens: Nw Thailand
  Thailand
  Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
  
  ; Terra typica: Chiang Mai, N Siam; restricted to Doi Suthep Mountain by TAYLOR 1963.
• haasei: E Thailand
  Thailand
  Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
  
  , Cambodia, S Vietnam; Terra typica: Chantaboon, Siam.
• whiteheadi: N Vietnam, Hainan; Terra typica: Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan.

Distribution

From Assam and Yunnan to Singapore.

Southern China (Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), India (E. Himalayas to Assam), Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and W. Malaysia.

External links

• http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/myanmar/checklist_lizards.html
• http://www.ecologyasia.com/html-menu/species-list.htm