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Hardwicke's bloodsucker (''Brachysaura minor'') is an agamid lizard and the only species of the genus ''Brachysaura'' and found in South Asia. ==Description/Identification== Physical Structure: This is a small stocky and pot-belly lizard with a short tail. Its head large and elongated, flat above, sloping towards snout. 〔http://www.pakwildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Artical-6.pdf〕 Its dorsal scales larger, strongly imbricate and keeled, pointing backward and upward, ventral scales smaller than dorsal; upper head scales larger, unequal, strongly keeled or tubercular. 〔http://snakes.mpsbb.info/33.html〕 Females are larger than the males. 〔http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/〕 Color Pattern: Dorsal color is olive-brown with 3 rows of dark-brown light edged spots on the back and base of the tail; spots of middle row are most prominent and rhomboidal; a white streak on each side of the neck is bifurcating behind and an oblique one from the eye to the angle of mouth; limbs are with dark-brown cross bars; throat is profusely spotted with dark-brown and orange; belly is yellowish-white with numerous orange dots. 〔http://snakes.mpsbb.info/33.html〕 Color inside the mouth is ink-blue. 〔http://www.landofthewild.com/showPic.php?&albumId=276&albumTitle=Reptiles&picId=1173&picTitle=Lesser%20Agama〕 Females are more brilliantly colored during breeding season. 〔http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/170377/〕 Length: Maximum:18 cm, 〔http://www.pakwildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Artical-6.pdf〕 Common:10 cm. (Snout to vent 6 cm.). 〔http://www.pakwildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Artical-6.pdf〕 Maximum published weight: ? g. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hardwicke's bloodsucker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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