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| | Reptiles of Sri Lanka by Anslem de Silva | Environment Sri Lanka - Biodiversity |
 | | In contrast, recent studies indicate that some species of reptiles which were earlier considered rare (e.g. |
 | | Lyriocephalus scutatus, Calodactylodes illingworthorum, Calotes liolepis, Balanophis ceylonensis, etc) in the country show the existence of healthy populations (de Silva et al., 2004 a,. |
 | | In addition, the lack of data regarding the golden gecko (Calodactylodes illingworthorum) has led to the assumption that they were uncommon (e.g., Manamendra-Arachchi, 1997, Wickramsinghe and Somaweera, 2003). |
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