Japalura
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Japalura is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. Species of Japalura are native to Pakistan, India, China, and Myanmar.<ref name=kunte>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=mah>Template:Cite journal</ref> Many species have been moved to the genus Diploderma.
SpeciesEdit
The following eight species are recognized as being valid:<ref name=RDB/>
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Japalura andersoniana Template:Small | Anderson's mountain lizard | southwestern China | |
File:Japalura austeniana (10.3897-evolsyst.5.67137) Figure 1.jpg | Japalura austeniana Template:Small | Abor Hills agama | Bhutan and India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh). |
Japalura dasi Template:Small | Agaupani mountain lizard, Agaupani forest agama | Nepal. | |
File:Japalura kumaonensis 179377745.jpg | Japalura kumaonensis Template:Small | Kumaon mountain lizard, Kumaon forest agama | northern India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Tibet (China) |
File:Japalura major 13757885.jpg | Japalura major Template:Small | large mountain lizard, greater forest agama | northern India and Nepal. |
Japalura sagittifera Template:Small | Burmese japalure | Myanmar. | |
Japalura tricarinata Template:Small | three-keeled mountain lizard, tricarinate forest agama | India, Nepal, and Tibet (China) | |
File:Kaziranga Lizard (107934471).jpeg | Japalura variegata Template:Small | variegated mountain lizard, Himalayan dragon | northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal. |
Nota bene: a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Japalura.
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Gray JE (1853). "Descriptions of some undescribed species of Reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 12: 386-392. (Japalura, new genus, pp. 387–388).