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Diploderma micangshanense (SONG, 1987)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesChinese: 米仓山龙蜥
E: mountain dragon 
SynonymJapalura micangshanensis SONG 1987
Japalura ningjiangensis SONG 1987 (error typographicus)
Japalura micangshanensis — BARTS & WILMS 2003
Japalura micangshanensis — MANTHEY 2010
Diploderma micangshanense — WANG et al. 2018
Diploderma micangshanensis — XIONG et al. 2022 
DistributionChina (Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Henan)

Type locality: Qingmuchan, Nigqiang Co., Shaanxi Province, China, 700 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: IZSX 82158 (also as SIZ 82158), Shaanxi Institute of Zoology, adult female; Paratypes: 1 subadult male (SIZ 82119)and 15 adult females (SIZ 82092, 82120, 82125–6, 82135–8, 82152, 82159–60, 82186, 82193, 82254–5) from the same locality, 25. May to 28. June 1982. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
References
  • ANANJEVA, Natalia B.; Xianguang GUO and Yuezhao WANG 2011. Taxonomic Diversity of Agamid Lizards (Reptilia, Sauria, Acrodonta, Agamidae) from China: A Comparative Analysis. Asian Herpetological Research 2 (3): 117-128 - get paper here
  • Barts, M. & Wilms, T. 2003. Die Agamen der Welt. Draco 4 (14): 4-23 - get paper here
  • CALDERÓN-ESPINOSA, MARTHA LUCIA & GUIDO FABIAN MEDINA-RANGEL 2016. A new Lepidoblepharis lizard (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Colombian Guyana shield. . Zootaxa 4067 (2): 215–232 - get paper here
  • DENZER, WOLFGANG; ULRICH MANTHEY, PATRICK D CAMPBELL 2019. Catalogue of type specimens of the agamid lizard genus Japalura s. l. (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae). Zootaxa 4612 (1): 109-125 - get paper here
  • Gao, Zhengfa 2001. Japalura micangshanensis-a new record of reptile in Sichuan. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 20 (1) - get paper here
  • Li, Shengquan; Li, Cheng; Wang, Yuezhao 2000. Japalura micangshanensis - A new agamid record in Gansu Province. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 19 (3): 156 - get paper here
  • Li, Y., Wang, Y., Bai, Y., Lv, Y., & Xiong, J. 2021. Mitochondrial genome of Diploderma micangshanense and its implications for phylogeny of the genus Diploderma. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA, 6(3): 798-802 - get paper here
  • Liu, X., Li, G., Liu, C., & Xiong, J. 2023. Age and growth of the mountain dragon, Diploderma micangshanense (Squamata: Lacertilia: Agamidae). Animal Biology, 1(aop), 1-11 - get paper here
  • Manthey U 2010. Agamid Lizards of Southern Asia. Draconinae 2 -Leiolepidinae. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 7b, Frankfurt, 168 pp.
  • MANTHEY, ULRICH; WOLFGANG DENZER, HOU MIAN & WANG XIAOHE 2012. Discovered in historical collections: Two new Japalura species (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yulong Snow Mountains, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan, PR China. Zootaxa 3200: 27–48 - get paper here
  • Song-Mingtao 1987. Survey of the reptiles of southern Shaanxi. Acta Herpetologica Sinica 6 (1): 59-64 - get paper here
  • WANG, Kai; , Ke JIANG, Gang PAN, Mian HOU, Cameron D. SILER and Jing CHE 2015. A New Species of Japalura (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Upper Lancang (Mekong) Valley of Eastern Tibet, China. Asian Herpetological Research 6 (3): 159–168 - get paper here
  • Wang, Kai; Jing Che, Simin Lin, V Deepak, Datta-Roy Aniruddha, Ke Jiang, Jieqiong Jin, Hongman Chen, Cameron D Siler; 2018. 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, , zly034, - get paper here
  • Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
  • Wu, Jianguo 2015. Can changes in the distribution of lizard species over the past 50 years be attributed to climate change? Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI<br />10.1007/s00704-015-1553-4 - get paper here
  • Xiong, Jianli; Yinlong Bai, Guanglu Li and Zhangqiang You 2022. Sexual dimorphism in the mountain dragon, Diploderma micangshanensis (Squamata: Lacertilia: Agamidae) from central China Animal Biology 72 (4): 325 - get paper here
  • Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
 
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