Microauris aurantolabium

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 Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Acrodonta

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Draconinae
Genus: Microauris
Species: Microauris aurantolabium

Name

Microauris aurantolabium (Krishnan, 2008)

• Holotype: BNHM 1436, adult ♀, collected by N.M. Ishwar in 1997.
• Type locality: “Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Tamil Nadu, India”.
• Etymology: Name derived from the Neo-Latin aurantium, meaning golden, and the Latin labium, meaning lip, in reference to the orange upper lip.

Combinations

• Calotes aurantolabium Krishnan, 2008: 531 [original combination]
• Microauris aurantolabium — Pal, Vijayakumar, Shanker, Jayarajan & Deepak, 2018: 440 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Krishnan, S. 2008. New Species of Calotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from the Southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Herpetology 42(3): 530–535. DOI: 10.1670/06-198.1 Reference page. 
• Pal, S., Vijayakumar, S.P., Shanker, K., Jayarajan, A. & Deepak, V. 2018. A systematic revision of Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Western Ghats adds two genera and reveals two new species. Zootaxa 4482(3): 401–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.3.1. Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Microauris aurantolabium. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 November 2019.
• Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B., Vijayakumar, S.P., Ganesan, S.R. & Prabhu, M. 2013. IUCN: Microauris aurantolabium  (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172675A1364818. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172675A1364818.en

Vernacular names

English: Orange-lipped Forest Lizard