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title: "Common Green Forest Lizard"
description: "Calotes calotes — Gady. Calotes calotes, the common green forest lizard, is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and the Shevaroy Hills in India, and Sri Lanka."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/common-green-forest-lizard
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Green Forest Lizard

> Calotes calotes — Gady. Calotes calotes, the common green forest lizard, is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and the Shevaroy Hills in India, and Sri Lanka.

- Scientific name: *Calotes calotes*
- Category: `reptiles` (Gady)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las), `jungle` (Dżungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 2557
- Wikidata: [Q2705165](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2705165)
- iNaturalist taxon: [31276](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/31276)

## Names

- en: Common Green Forest Lizard
- de: Sägerückenagame

## Countries with the most observations

LK (1909), IN (433)

## Summary

Calotes calotes, the common green forest lizard, is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and the Shevaroy Hills in India, and Sri Lanka.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotes_calotes

## Photo

![Common Green Forest Lizard](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-green-forest-lizard/medium.jpg)

Photo: wilmotsenaratne · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377329892

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-green-forest-lizard?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).