Targaryen Dragons do exist!

Our recent paper describes three new species of Pseudocalotes from sky islands in Peninsular Malaysia named after Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons from #GameofThrones. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.3

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Pseudocalotes drogon Grismer et al. 2016Screen Shot 2016-07-06 at 8.41.08 PM

Pseudocalotes rhaegal Grismer et al. 2016

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Pseudocalotes viserion Grismer et al. 2016

Grismer, L. L., Quah, E. S. H., Wood, Jr., P. L., Anuar, S., Muin, A., Davis, H. R., Murdoch, M. L., Grismer, J. L., Cota, M., and Cobos, A. J. 2016.Dragons in the mist: three new species of Pseudocalotes Fitzinger (Squamata: Agamidae) from the sky island archipelago of Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 4136 (3):461–490.

 

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