Sitana laticeps
Broad headed fan throated lizard
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Laticeps, derived from the Latin word latus meaning broad and Latin suffix ceps referring to its head.
Males have a loose patch of skin drooping from their throats – it doesn’t sound like much but comes into its own when the lizards’ dating game begins. That’s when males scamper up a rock, and unfurl the loose skin into a beautiful fan.This fan called a dewlap.
S. laticeps has a slightly serrated, medium-sized, off-white dewlap with a blue streak on its lower jaw.
During breeding season, they display those fan to attract female.

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