Peninsular Rock Agama

The peninsular rock agama, or South Indian rock agama, is a common agamid lizard of rocky hills in south India. The snout is longer than the diameter of the eye, the head scales are smooth or only slightly keeled, and the tail is slightly flattened and covered in keeled scales. In the breeding season the male takes on bright colours. From snout to vent it measures about 135 mm, with a tail of about 200 mm (Wikipedia, general species account).

It feeds on insects and is found south of about 16°N latitude. A related species, Blanford's rock agama, lives in the Eastern Ghats, north of this one's range. The Reptile Database lists the Indian range as southern India, including Malabar, Mysore, the Nilgiris, the Nallamalai Hills, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.