Sitana fusca SCHLEICH & KÄSTLE, 1998

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Dark Sitana
Synonym	Sitana fusca SCHLEICH & KÄSTLE 1998 Sitana fusca — KÄSTLE et al. 2013: 431
Distribution	E Nepal Type locality: "East Nepal, Ghauri Dhara Road Camp 0.8 km north of the road Janatir-Bardibas. Geographic coordinates: 26º59'25.0" N, 85º53'45.6" E.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZSM 853/2012 (originally SHHS 1996/83, Fuhlrott-Museum Wuppertal): Paratypes: VW/D-96/21 and VW/D-96/22 (four paratypes), not in ZSM, whereabout unknown
Diagnosis
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
References	Bhattarai S, Pokheral CP, Lamichhane BR, Regmi UR, Ram AK, Subedi N. 2018. Amphibians and reptiles of Parsa National Park, Nepal. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 12(1): 35–48 (e155) Bhattarai S., Gurung A., Lamichhane BR., Regmi R., Dhungana M., Kumpakha B. and Subedi N. 2020. Amphibians and Reptiles of Chure Range, Nepal. President Chure Terai-Madhesh Conservation Development Board and National Trust for Nature Conservation, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Manthey U 2010. Agamid Lizards of Southern Asia. Draconinae 2 -Leiolepidinae. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 7b, Frankfurt, 168 pp. Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Schleich, H. H. & W. KÄSTLE. 1998. Sitana fusca spec. nov., a further species from the Sitana sivalensis- complex. In: Contributions to the herpetology of south-Asia (Nepal, India). pp: 207-226. H. H. Schleich & W. Kästle (Eds). Fuhlrott-Museum, Wuppertal. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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