Acanthosaura lepidogaster

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: Acanthosaura
Species: Acanthosaura lepidogaster

Name

Acanthosaura lepidogaster (Cuvier, 1829)

Type locality: Cochinchine (= South Vietnam)

Synonyms

Calotes lepidogaster Cuvier, 1829
Lophyrus tropidogaster Duméril & Bibron, 1837 (emend. for lepidogaster)
Acanthosaura lamnidentata Boulenger, 1885 (fide Smith, 1935)
Acanthosaura hainanensis Boulenger, 1900
Acanthosaura fruhstorferi Werner, 1904
Acanthosaura braueri Vogt, 1914
Goniocephalus lepidogaster — Smith, 1935
Calotes fruhstorferi — Smith, 1935 (= C. brevipes fide Hallermann)
Calotes fruhstorferi — Bourret, 1943
Gonocephalus lepidogaster — Mell, 1952
Calotes brevipes — Mertens, 1954
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — Taylor, 1963
Calotes brevipes — Wermuth, 1967
Calotes breviceps — Tiedemann & Häupl, 1980 (error typographicus)
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — Brygoo, 1988
Calotes brevipes — Zhao & Adler, 1993
Acanthosaura fruhstorferi — Denzer et al., 1997
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — Schlüter & Hallermann, 1997
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — Cox et al., 1998
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — Chan-ard et al., 1999
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — [Manthey]] & Schuster, 1999
Acanthosaura lepidogastra — Macey et al., 2000
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — Barts & Wilms, 2003
Acanthosaura lepidogaster — Bobrov & Semenov, 2008

References

Cuvier, G. J. L. N. F. D. 1829. Le Regne Animal Distribué, d'apres son Organisation, pur servir de base à l'Histoire naturelle des Animaux et d'introduction à l'Anatomie Comparé. Nouvelle Edition [second edition]. Vol. 2. Les Reptiles. Déterville, Paris, i-xvi, 1-406
Boulenger, G. A. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.
Boulenger, G. A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
Werner, F. 1904. Beschreibung neuer Reptilien aus den Gattungen Acanthosaura, Calotes, Gastropholis und Typhlops. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 27: 461.
Vogt, T. 1914. Südchinesische Amphibien und Reptilien. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1914: 96–102.
Smith, M. A. 1935. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. in: The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
Mell, R. 1952. Bodenrenner im subtropischen Bergwald. Der Nackenstachler (Gonocephalus lepidogaster). Die Aquarien- und Terrarienzeitschrift (DATZ), Stuttgart, 5 (6) : 160–163.
Taylor, E. H. 1963. The lizards of Thailand. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 44 : 863.
Brygoo, E. R. 1988. Les types d’Agamidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Catalogue critique. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 10 (ser. 4) A (3), suppl.: 22.
Zhao, E. and K. Adler, 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522.
Denzer, W., Günther, R., and U. Manthey, 1997. Annotated type catalogue of the Agamid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) in the Museum für Naturkunde der Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin (former Zoological Museum Berlin). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 73 (2): 320.
Cox, M. J., Van Dijk, P. P., Jarujin Nabhitabhata and K. Thirakhupt, 1998. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Ralph Curtis Publishing, 144 pp.
Chan-ard ,T., Grossmann, W., Gumprecht, A, and K. D. Schulz, 1999. Amphibians and reptiles of peninsular Malaysia and Thailand - an illustrated checklist [bilingual English and German]. Bushmaster Publications, Würselen, Gemany, 240 pp.
Manthey, U. and M. Schuster, 1999. Agamen, 2. Aufl. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 120 pp.
Macey, J. R., Schulte II, J. A., Larson, A., Ananjeva, N. B., Wang, Y., Pethiyagoda, R., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., and T. J. Papenfuss 2000. Evaluating Trans-Tethys Migration: An Example Using Acrodont Lizard Phylogenetics. Systematic Biology, 49 (2): 233–256 PDF.
Barts, M. and T. Wilms, 2003. Die Agamen der Welt. Draco 4 (14): 4–23.
Bobrov V. V. and D. V. Semenov, 2008. Lizards of Vietnam [in Russian]. Moscow, 236 pp.

Links

Acanthosaura lepidogaster at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 30 December 2009.
IUCN: Acanthosaura lepidogaster (Cuvier, 1829) (Least Concern)

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Schwarzkopf-Nackenstachler
English: Brown Pricklenape