Japalura austeniana

Japalura austeniana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acrodonta

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Acrodonta

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Draconinae
Genus: Japalura
Species: Japalura austeniana

Name

Japalura austeniana (Annandale, 1908)

• Holotype: ZSI 3976, ♀, collected by Colonel Godwin-Austen during the Dafla Expedition of 1874–75.
• Type locality: “Hills near Harmatti [=Dafla Hills], Assam”.

Combinations

• Salea austeniana Annandale, 1908: 37 [original combination]
• Mictopholis austeniana — Smith, 1935: 165 [subsequent combination]
• Pseudocalotes austeniana — Mahony, 2010: 6 [subsequent combination]
• Japalura austeniana — Gowande et al., 2021: 144 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. Taylor and Francis: London. xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps.Reference page. 
• Mahony, S. 2010. Systematic and taxomonic revaluation of four little known Asian agamid species, Calotes kingdonwardi Smith, 1935, Japalura kaulbacki Smith, 1937, Salea kakhienensis Anderson, 1879 and the monotypic genus Mictopholis Smith, 1935 (Reptilia: Agamidae). Zootaxa 2514(1): 1–23. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2514.1.1 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Gowande, G.G., Bhosale, H.S., Phansalkar, P.U., Sawant, M. & Mirza, Z.A. 2021. On the systematics and the phylogenetic position of the poorly known, montane dragon-lizard species Pseudocalotes austeniana (Annandale, 1908) (Squamata, Agamidae, Draconinae). Evolutionary Systematics 5(1): 141–150. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.5.67137 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pseudocalotes austeniana. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 November 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Abor Hills Forest Lizard