Editing Harpesaurus

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
{{More citations needed|date=April 2016}}
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{{Automatic Taxobox
| name = ''Harpesaurus''
| taxon = Harpesaurus
 | image = Harpesaurus modiglianii – Baliani, 1933.png
| authority = [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1885<ref>"''Harpesaurus'' ". ''Dahms Tierleben''. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Iguania/agamidae.</ref>
}}

'''''Harpesaurus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[lizard]]s in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Agamidae]]. The genus is [[endemic]] to [[Indonesia]].<ref name=RDB/>

Each of the 6 species are known from at most only a few specimens.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ineich |first=Ivan |last2=Kopetsch |first2=Thore |last3=Böhme |first3=Wolfgang |date=May 2022 |title=Pinocchio lizards and other lizards bearing rostral appendages − the peculiar habitus of the draconine agamid Harpesaurus tricinctus with highlights on its ecological implications and convergence with its New World equivalent, the dactyloid Anolis proboscis |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360622992_Pinocchio_lizards_and_other_lizards_bearing_rostral_appendages_-_the_peculiar_habitus_of_the_draconine_agamid_Harpesaurus_tricinctus_with_highlights_on_its_ecological_implications_and_convergence_with |journal=Salamandra |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=123-136 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Putra |first=Chairunas A. |last2=Amarasinghe |first2=A.A. Thasun |last3=Research Center for Climate Change, Multidisciplinary Lab, FMIPA Building, 7th Floor, Kampus UI, University of Indonesia, Depok 16424, Indonesia |last4=Hikmatullah |first4=Desy |last5=Scali |first5=Stefano |last6=Brinkman |first6=JanJaap |last7=Manthey |first7=Ulrich |last8=Ineich |first8=Ivan |date=2020-05-21 |title=REDISCOVERY OF MODIGLIANI’S NOSE-HORNED LIZARD, Harpesaurus modiglianii VINCIGUERRA, 1933 (REPTILIA : AGAMIDAE) AFTER 129 YEARS WITHOUT ANY OBSERVATION |url=http://www.taprobanica.org/Archives/Volume-9-14-2020-26/Volume-9-Number-1-May-2020/v9i1216.html |journal=Taprobanica |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=3–11 |doi=10.47605/tapro.v9i1.216|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Geographic range==
[[Species]] of the genus ''Harpesaurus'' are found on the [[Greater Sunda Islands]].<ref name=":0" />

==Habitat==
The natural [[habitat]] of lizards of the genus ''Harpesaurus'' is [[forest]]s.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}}

==Species==
Six species are recognized as being valid.<ref name=RDB>{{EMBL genus|genus=Harpesaurus}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Species
!Common Name
!Range
|-
|''[[Harpesaurus beccarii]]'' 
{{small|[[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1888}} 
|Sumatra nose-horned lizard
|[[Sumatra]]
|-
|''[[Harpesaurus borneensis]]'' 
{{small|([[Robert Mertens|Mertens]], 1924)}}
|
|[[Borneo]]
|-
|''[[Harpesaurus brooksi]]'' 
{{small|([[Hampton Wildman Parker|Parker]], 1924)}}
|
|Sumatra
|-
|''[[Harpesaurus ensicauda]]'' 
{{small|[[F. Werner]], 1913}} 
|Nias nose-horned lizard
|[[Nias]]
|-
|''[[Harpesaurus modiglianii]]'' 
{{small|[[Decio Vinciguerra|Vinciguerra]], 1933}}<ref name="Putra2020">{{cite journal |last1=Putra |first1=C.A. |last2=Amarasinghe |first2=A.A.T. |last3=Hikmatullah |first3=D. |last4=Scali |first4=S. |last5=Brinkman |first5=J. |last6=Manthey |first6=U. |last7=Ineich |first7=I. |date=May 2020 |title=Rediscovery of Modigliani's Nose-horned Lizard, ''Harpesaurus modiglianii'' Vinciguerra, 1933 (Reptilia: Agamidae) After 129 Years Without Any Observation |url=http://file.taprobanica.org/2_harpesaurus_modiglianii_taprobanica_9_1_2020_3_11-43750-3349_561.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Taprobanica |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=3–11 |doi=10.47605/tapro.v9i1.216 |s2cid=229579341 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611195023/http://file.taprobanica.org/2_harpesaurus_modiglianii_taprobanica_9_1_2020_3_11-43750-3349_561.pdf |archive-date=2020-06-11 |access-date=2020-06-11}}</ref> 
|Modigliani's nose-horned lizard
|Sumatra
|-
|''[[Harpesaurus tricinctus]]'' 
{{small|([[A.H.A. Duméril]]  in [[A.M.C. Duméril]] & [[A.H.A. Duméril]], 1851)}} 
|Java nose-horned lizard
|Likely [[Java]]
|}
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The species formerly known as ''H. thescelorhinos'' {{small|[[F. Wayne King|King]], 1978}} is a synonym of ''H. borneensis''.

The Sumatran species ''H. modiglianii'' was previously known only from the [[type specimen]], collected in 1891, but was found again in 2018.<ref name="Putra2020" />

''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Harpesaurus''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger GA]] (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Agamidæ.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (''Harpesaurus'', new genus, p.&nbsp;279).

==External links==
*Rochmyaningih, Dyna (2020). [https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nose-horned-dragon-lizard-lost-science-found "A nose-horned dragon lizard lost to science for over 100 years has been found"]. ''Science News,'' June 9, 2020.


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[[Category:Harpesaurus]]
[[Category:Lizard genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger]]