Takydromus

Takydromus sexlineatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores 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 Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Tribus: Lacertini
Genus: Takydromus
Species (25): T. albomaculosus – T. amurensis – T. dorsalis – T. formosanus – T. guilinensis – T. hani – T. haughtonianus – T. hsuehshanensis – T. intermedius – T. khasiensis – T. kuehnei – T. luyeanus – T. madaensis – T. sauteri – T. septentrionalis – T. sexlineatus – T. sikkimensis – T. smaragdinus – T. stejnegeri – T. sylvaticus – T. tachydromoides – T. toyamai – T. viridipunctatus – T. wolteri – T. yunkaiensis

Name

Takydromus Daudin, 1802: 251

• Type species: Takydromus quadrilineatus Daudin, 1802, by subsequent designation.

Synonyms

• Tachydromus Oppel, 1811 [incorrect subsequent spelling]
• Tachysaurus Gray, 1845: 52 [synonymized by Boulenger (1887: 3)]
  • Type species: Tachydromus japonicus Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by monotypy.
• Apeltonotus Boulenger, 1917: 233 [synonymized with Platyplacopus by Pope (1935: 474)]
  • Type species: Tachydromus dorsalis Stejneger, 1904, by monotypy.
• Platyplacopus Boulenger, 1917: 231 [synonymized by Arnold (1989: 246)]
  • Type species: Takydromus kuehnei Van Denburgh, 1909, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Daudin, F.M. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Troisième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 452 pp. + pls. XXVI–XLV. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Boulenger, G.A. 1917. A revision of the lizards of the genus Takydromus. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 207–235. BHL

Additional references

• Lin, S.-M., Chen, C.A. & Lue, K.-Y. 2002. Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Grass Lizards Genus Takydromus (Reptilia: Lacertidae) of East Asia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22(2): 276–288. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2001.1059 Reference page. 
• Ota, H., Honda, M., Chen, S.L., Hikida, T., Panha, S., Oh, H.-S. & Matsui, M. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships, taxonomy, character evolution and biogeography of the lacertid lizards of the genus Takydromus (Reptilia: Squamata): a molecular perspective. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76(4): 493–509. DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00084.x Reference page. 
• Arnold, E.N., Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. 2007. Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa 1430: 1–86. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Lue, K.-Y. & Lin, S.-M. 2008. Two New Cryptic Species of Takydromus (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Taiwan. Herpetologica 64(3): 379–395. DOI: 10.1655/07-030.1 Reference page. 
• Bobrov, V.V. 2013. Новый вид долгохвостки (Reptilia, Sauria, Lacertidae, Takydromus) из Южного Вьетнама [=A new species of grass lizard (Reptilia, Sauria, Lacertidae, Takydromus) from southern Vietnam] (In Russian). Current Studies in Herpetology 13(3/4): 97–100. Reference page. 
• Wang, Y.-Y., Gong, S.-P., Liu, P. & Wang, X. 2017. A New Species of the Genus Takydromus (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Tianjingshan Forestry Station, northern Guangdong, China. Zootaxa 4338(3): 441–458. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.2. Reference page. 
• Wang, J., Lyu, Z.-T., Yang, C.-Y., Li, Y.-L. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2019. A new species of the genus Takydromus (Squamata, Lacertidae) from southwestern Guangdong, China. ZooKeys 871: 119–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.871.35947 Reference page. 
• Guo, K., Hu, Y.-H., Chen, J., Zhong, J. & Ji, X. 2024. A New Species of the Genus Takydromus (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Northeastern Guangxi, China. Animals 14(10): 1402. DOI: 10.3390/ani14101402 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Takydromus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 September 2019.

Vernacular names

• Deutsch: Langschwanzeidechsen
• English: Grass Lizards
• ไทย: สางห่า, จิ้งเหลนน้อยหางยาว
• Tiếng Việt: Liu điu
• 中文: 草蜥屬

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