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Ctenophorus tjakalpa EDWARDS & HUTCHINSON, 2023

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCtenophorus tjakalpa EDWARDS & HUTCHINSON 2023
Ctenophorus fordi Clade 1 — EDWARDS et al. 2015 
DistributionAustralia (Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia and South Australia)

Type locality: 14.6 km NNE Chinbingina, -32.11288, 134.29118  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. SAMA 61319, adult male, D. Armstrong and M. Hutchinson, 8 December 2005.
Paratypes. See Supplementary Data in Edwards & Hutchinson 2023. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Slender, long-legged and tailed species, with sandy orange dorsal color, and narrow but continuous light dorsolateral stripes overlying a dorsolateral region with darker markings varying from weak blackish blotches to irregular black marbling. Male throat markings very variable, from a strong black patch or partial chevron to absent. Male black chest patch well developed but relatively narrow, continuous with a black stripe on upper arm (Figs. 6E–F, 8E–F, S8D, S9E–F, L). Femoral pore row reaches halfway to knee. (Edwards & Hutchinson 2023)


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CommentDistribution: see map in EDWARDS & HUTCHINSON 2023: 177 (Fig. 1) 
EtymologyNamed after the name tjakalpa, used by the Maralinga Tjarutja people of the southern Great Victoria Desert for the small dragons that occur in sand dune country (Backhouse, pers. comm.), the epithet so formed being a noun in apposition. 
References
  • Edwards, D., & Hutchinson, M. 2023. Sand Dragons: Species of the Ctenophorus maculatus Complex (Squamata: Agamidae) of Australia's Southern and Western Interior. Journal of Herpetology 57 (2): 176-196 - get paper here
 
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