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Lankan Scientists discover new pygmy lizard
Friday, 15 December 2006 - 6:19 AM SL Time
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Leading Sri Lankan scientists have discovered a new species of Pygmy Lizard.
This new species is named Cophotis dumbaraensis, in Sinhala it is Dumbara Kuru Bodhiliya.
This is the second species to be discovered of the Cophotis group after nearly 150 years. This species belongs to the Reptilia family Agamidae, and is found in the highlands of Sri Lanka.
Dumbara Kuru Bodhiliya was identified and studied further by researchers Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi, of the Wildlife Heritage Trust, Anslem De Silva, Head of the Amphibia and Reptile Research Organization and Thasun Amarasinghe.
Speaking exclusively to The Island the research team said that the endemic ovoviviparous Sri Lankan lizard, genus Cophotis, has hitherto been considered to comprise only a single species.
Cophotis ceylanica (Pygmy Lizard) or Kuru Bodhiya, in Sinhala, was discovered by Peters way back in 1861.
This species is restricted to tropical montane cloud forests at elevations above 1,700 metres in the southern part of Sri Lanka`s central highlands.
Kelum, Anslem and Thasun described a second species, Cophotis dumbaraensis, from an elevation of above 1,400 metres in the Dumbara (Knuckles) Hills, to the north of the central mountains, and separated from them by the Mahaweli River valley (above 500 metres elevation).
The new species is distinguished from Kuru Bodhia by having a greater mid-ventral scale count and many other differences.
Both species reach nearly the same size (65.2 mm in Cophotis Ceylanica, 60.0 mm in Cophotis dumbaraensis), and do not appear to differ significantly in mensural characters.
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Vagabond
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15 Dec 2006 12:06:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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I hope this species is also edible as the one we found 150 years ago. I like the fried salted and dried lizard. However, I like fresh lizard too. Please see below my favorite recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 kg - lizard
- 0.5 liter - sesame seed oil
- 0.5 kg - sliced onions
- 0.25 kg - chopped tomato
- 0.25 kg chili powder
- seasoning
- leaf spinach
Preparation:
Cut lizard into strips, wash and drain.
Heat the heat sesame seed oil in saucepan, fry the lizard, remove and keep warm.
Fry onions, add tomato puree and cook.
Add the chopped tomato, chili powder and stirring well.
Then add water(you could add yogurt or stock cube instead of water, SLs use coconut milk) and seasoning and boil for 10 minutes.
Add spinach and boil for 5-10 minutes, reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour.
Edited By - Vagabond - 15 Dec 2006 12:07:42 GMT |
Stripes
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15 Dec 2006 12:17:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vagabond you have just become a cannibal because these sinhala scientists have just discovered their own race.
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musketeer
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15 Dec 2006 12:32:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Maybe just a useless fact, but Sri Lanka is home to highest number of frog species. |
Vagabond
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15 Dec 2006 12:55:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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Maybe just a useless fact, but Sri Lanka is home to highest number of frog species.
Interesting, However I have not seen green frogs in SL. |
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15 Dec 2006 13:32:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vagabond,
What are you talking about? most frogs are green. |
Sandman
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15 Dec 2006 16:34:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vaga
You forgot to detail how to get the lizard into the kitchen.
I too love animals. They taste soo good. |
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16 Dec 2006 08:03:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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How about world biggest rat velu pandi.
Unique to Vanni jungles of Sri Lanka it is a monster that destroys Tamils. The irony is after discovering the monster by Tamils them selves, they let him loose in the Jungle to destroy Singhalese, but the intention back fired and he started to pray on Tamils as he can not get out of the so called Tamil Home land(Vanni Jungle) for the last 30 years to pray on Singhalese. Some of his off springs time to time appear in the South but lately these rabid predators had not been very successful in their hunting missions . An advocate for these rabid predators rights, recently died in London from cancer. He belonged to Dravidian race and was known as the stinky mouth piece of velu. He had a self awarded doctorate for formulating the theories for self destruction of Tamils of Sri Lanka. |
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16 Dec 2006 09:39:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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How about the geko who is hiding in the Araliya Abode with 1000's of criminals protecting him or the Lizzards in the cabinet who are plundering the tax payers or the yellow robed Monkeys who the sinhala masses worship as the reincarnation of Lord Buddha or finally the Donkey who got its online degree and practicing witchcraft in the US.
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16 Dec 2006 15:37:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Having backed the wrong horse in the presidential race, the LTTe gooks thought this would be a war of convenience. Now that Mahinda has put their miserable racist azses in a sling, these guys are whining...
Edited By - Sandman - 16 Dec 2006 15:38:10 GMT |
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