Sitana devakai

Sitana devakai (Devaka's fan-throated lizard) is an endemic species of agamid lizards recently found from Sri Lanka.^[2][3][4] The species was first found from Puttalama district.^[5] The lizard is also known to found in Tamil Nadu of India, but not given valid identification. The species was named in honor of Dr. Devaka K. Weerakoon, who is a conservation biologist. He is a Professor of Zoology in University of Colombo.

Devaka's Fan-throated lizard
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Genus:	Sitana
Species:	S. devakai
Binomial name
Sitana devakai Amarasinghe, Ineich & Karunaratna, 2014
Synonyms
Litana ponticereana Kelaart (1854) [ partim] Sitana ponticereana Smith (1935) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Taylor (1957) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Wermuth (1967) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Manamendra-Arachchi & Liyanage (1994) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Erdelen (1998) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Das & De Silva (2005) [partim] Sitana ponticereana De Silva (2006) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Somaweera & Somaweera (2009) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Manthey (2010) [partim] Sitana ponticereana Ponticereana Deraniyagala (1953) [partim] Sitana ponticereana [sic] Bahir & Surasinghe (2005) [partim]

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.