The rough-nosed horned lizard is an Agamid lizard from Sri Lanka in lowland dipterocarp forests and secondary forests in the wet zone. It is distinguished from all the other ''Ceratophora'' species by the presence of a complex rostral appendage, comprising more scales than rostral scale alone. The lateral body scales are small and more or less regular shape.
Similar species: Scaled Reptiles
By ShanelleAW
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Uploaded Jul 17, 2018. Captured Jul 16, 2018 06:00.
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There's no long snout. Could be a juvenile but I'd like to have it checked. To be clear, I really hope it is correct because it would be a very nice endemic find! Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
That said, there are a lot of roughly similar-looking agamid species in Sri Lanka, and I definitely do not know enough about them to make a confident ID. Posted 4 years ago
Thank you, I generally put a lot of confidence in local experts, so it would have been useful to provide this information in the description in the first place. Not only would it be useful to judge confidence in the ID, it would also be educational, as well as fun to see how you went about things.
So don't be shy in the description, we'd very much like to learn how you found it, any behavior witnessed, how you came to an ID, etc. Hope you're willing to consider this for future posts. Posted 4 years ago