Bronchocela cristatella

Broncocele [sic] moluccana — Stoliczka, 1870 c: 107. — Stoliczka, 1870 d: 179. Broncocele [sic] cristatella — Stoliczka, 1870 d: 178.

Sumber: Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution

Green Crested Lizard (Figure 10 F; Telok Blangah Hill Park)

Sumber: Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution

IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2021].

Sumber: Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution

Description and variation: A medium sized species of Bronchocela (mean SVL 89.2 mm), with a long, tapering tail (TaL: SVL 3.57). Body relatively short and robust (AG: SVL 0.51). Head large (HL: SVL 0.29); longer than broad (HL: HW 1.91) and about as broad as deep. Snout less than half as long as the head (ES: HL 0.38) with a blunt, narrow and rounded tip. Canthus rostralis sharply defined, with five or six canthal scales. Orbit relatively large, a little more than 1 / 4 th the length of the head (ED: HL 0.32); tympanum ovoid, relatively smaller, a little smaller than half the eye diameter (TYH: ED 0.40) and green in colour. Scales between the eye and tympanum fairly enlarged. Nasal large and ovoid in shape. Scales on the cheek below the tympanum slightly enlarged; keeled. Mental semicircular, bounded by three small postmentals and nine or ten infralabials on either sides. Rostral relatively small, bounded by nine to ten supralabials on each side. Nostrils separated from each other by seven to nine small internasals. Nuchal crest composed of eight to ten shortened, lanceolate scales. Dorsal body scales not enlarged, feebly keeled and non-homogeneous in size, with the lateral scales being slightly larger, in 50 – 53 rows around the mid-body. Of the dorsal scales, the first row on the dorsum on either sides oriented posteriorly and slightly upwards; the next three to seven rows of scales oriented posterodorsally, with the rest of the scales on the lateral body oriented posteroventrally. Ventrals 60 – 86 in a longitudinal series; 3 - 5 times larger than the dorsal scales, bearing a strong median keel, projecting posteriorly towards the lower vertex. Limbs relatively robust and elongate; upper arm short; lower arm nearly as long as the upper arm; palm about as long as the lower arm (LAL: PAL 0.98). Fingers long and slender, relative length of fingers IV> III> V ≥ II> I. Thigh long and robust (FEL: SVL 0.28); tibia slightly longer than thighs (FEL: TBL 1.07); foot elongated, distinctively longer than thigh (FEL: FOL 1.37). Hindlimbs almost the size of body length (HLL: SVL 0.95). Relative lengths of toes IV> III> V> II> I; 31 – 34 subdigital lamellae under toe IV. Dorsal and ventral coloration bluish green throughout the body; distal half of the tail brownish. Head yellowish green both dorsally and ventrally. Sides of the lips, cheeks yellow and orbits brownish or blakish. Tympanum green and chin uniform yellowish green in males.