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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
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

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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).

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