Diploderma brevipes

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: Diploderma
Species: Diploderma brevipes

Name

Diploderma brevipes (Gressitt, 1936)

• Holotype: CAS 71998, adult ♀, collected by J.L. Gressitt on 15 June 1934.
• Type locality: “Bukai, near Horisha, Central Formosa [=Taiwan], alt. 1,200 meters”.

Combinations

• Japalura brevipes Gressitt, 1936: 117 [original combination]
• Diploderma brevipes — Wang et al., 2019: 259 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Gressitt, J.L. 1936. New reptiles from Formosa and Hainan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 49: 117–121. BHL Reference page. 
• Wang, K., Che, J., Lin, S.-M., Deepak, V., Datta-Roy, A., Jiang, K., Jin, J.-Q., Chen, H.-M. & Siler, C.D. 2019. Multilocus phylogeny and revised classification for mountain dragons of the genus Japalura s.l. (Reptilia: Agamidae: Draconinae) from Asia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(1): 246–267. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly034 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Diploderma brevipes. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 28 September 2019.
• Diploderma brevipes – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

English: Short-legged Japalure