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Eye - Features (2040 words) |
 | The Cophotis population of the Knuckles forest range has been separated from all the other known localities of C. ceylanica as this forest range occurs as an isolated mountain massif from the central hills of Sri Lanka. |
| Cophotis dumbara is well distinguished from C. ceylanica by smaller scales of gular regions. |
| Cophotis dumbara is restricted to cardamom cultivations in the Knuckles forest range whereas C. ceylanica is recorded from large area in the central hills of Sri Lanka including Nuwara Eliya, Hakgala, Horton Plains, Peak Wilderness range and Piduruthalagala. |
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Quotes on Cophotis (672 words) |
| In the Indian Cophotis ceylanica, the female has a dorsal crest, though much less developed than in the male; and so it is, as Dr. Gunther informs me, with the females of many Iguanas, Chameleons, and other lizards. |
| All the foregoing statements and quotations, in regard to Cophotis, Sitana and Draco, as well as the following facts in regard to Ceratophora and Chamaeleon, are from Dr. Gunther himself, or from his magnificent work on the 'Reptiles of British India,' Ray Soc., 1864, pp. |
| This, for instance, is the case with the above Cophotis and with the Acanthodactylus capensis of S. Africa. |
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