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Diploderma menghaiense LIU, HOU, WANG, ANANJEVA & RAO, 2020

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE:Menghai Mountain Lizard
Chinese: Mìng Hai Pân Xî, Meng Hai Long Xi (勐海龙蜥) 
SynonymDiploderma menghaiense LIU, HOU, WANG, ANANJEVA & RAO 2020
Japalura varcoae — ZHAO & JIANG 1966: 129
Japalura yunnanensis — YANG et al 1980: 263
Japalura varcoae — KOU & ZHANG 1987: 362
Japalura yunnanensis — JIANG 1992: 31
Japalura varcoae — YANG 1993: 135
Japalura yunnanensis — ZHAO & YANG 1997: 169 – 170
Japalura varcoae — ZHAO et al. 1999: 128 – 131
Japalura yunnanensis — ZHAO 1999: 131 – 133
Japalura yunnanensis — HE & ZHOU 2002: 166
Japalura varcoae — HE & ZHOU 2002: 166
Japalura varcoae — LI et al 2005: 74
Japalura varcoae — YANG 2008: 202
Japalura yunnanensis — YANG 2008: 202 – 203
Japalura yunnanensis — MANTHEY & DENZER 2012: 39
Japalura varcoae — LIU & YANG 2015: 377
Japalura varcoae — ZHANG et al 2019: 116
Japalura varcoae — LIU & MA 2019: 135
Diploderma yunnanense — WANG 2019: 492 
DistributionChina (Yunnan)

Type locality: on the border with Xiding Zone of Menghai Natural Nature Reserve (21°54;18’’ N 100°00’18’’ E, 1968 m a.s.l. elevation), Xiding Township, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunan Province, China.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: KIZ-2019067, adult male, collected on 14 July, 2019 by Shuo Liu.
Paratypes: KIZ-2019068-69 (adult females), KIZ-2019071 (adult male), L0030 (adult male), collecting data the same as for holotype; HM-2015001-2 (adult males) and HM-2015003-4 (adult females), collected in 28 July, 2015 by Mian Hou, Jian Wang, and Axel Hernandez in Menghun Town (21°48’22’’ N 100°27’46’’ E, 1742 m a.s.l. elevation), Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunan Province, China (Fig. 4). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Tympanum concealed; gular pouch distinct; tail long, TAL 2.4 – 2.8 times of SVL; 9 scales including the first supralabials contacted the rostral; T4S 26 – 31; nuchal crest strongly developed; coloration of oral cavity and tongue vitelline yellow; chin region white, scales of gular region white with orange edges and interstitial skin of gular region orange; background color of body yellowish white in males and green or light brown in females; males with a pair of yellow strips from the posterior area of shoulder backward and downward on the lateral of the anterior half of body (Table 3 in Liu et al. 2020).


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Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet refers to the Menghai County where the new species was discovered. 
References
  • He X. R. and Zhou X. Q. 2002. The fauna and geographical regionalization of reptiles in Yunnan Province. [in Chinese] Sichuan J. Zool., 21(3): 161 – 169
  • Li Z. J., Cao G. H., Zhou F., Jiang W. G., and Hu J. S. 2005. A report on amphibians and reptiles of Nabanhe National Nature Reserve in Yunnan,Ý in: Zhou K. Y. and Ji X. (eds.), Herpetologica Sinica X. [in Chinese] Jilin People’s Publishing House, Changchun, pp. 68 – 75
  • Liu F. and Yang S. H. (eds.), 2015. A Comprehensive Scientific Investigation of Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve. [in Chinese] Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, Yunnan Science and Technology Press, Kunming, China
  • Liu G. L. and Ma J. (eds.) 2019. Menghai County Nature Reserve of Xishuangbanna. [in Chinese] Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, Yunnan Science and Technology Press, Kunming, China
  • Liu, S., Li, Z., Yang, T., Hou, M., Rao, D., & Ananjeva, N. B. 2024. A New Species of Diploderma (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yunnan Nangunhe National Nature Reserve, China. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 31(6), 379-391 - get paper here
  • Liu, Shuo; Mian Hou, Jian Wang, Natalia Borisovna Ananjeva, Dingqi Rao 2020. A New Species of Diploderma (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Russian Journal of Herpetology 27 (3): 127-148 - get paper here
  • MANTHEY, U. & W. DENZER 2012. Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung von Japalura yunnanensis ANDERSON, 1878 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae). Sauria 34 (2): 35-40 - get paper here
  • Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here
  • Yang D. H. (ed.), 1993. Fauna of Xishuangbanna. [in Chinese] Yunnan Univ. Publishing Co. Ltd., Kunming, China
  • Yang D. T., Su C. Y., and Li S. M. 1980. A preliminary study on reptiles in southern Yunnan. [in Chinese with English abstract] Acta Zool. Sinica, 26(3): 262 – 265
  • Zhang L., Zong C. M., Yang K. F., and Wang Q. Y. 2019. Preliminary survey and faunal analysis of amphibians and reptiles in Menghai Nature Reserve. [in Chinese with English abstract]. Forest Invent. Plan., 44(3): 114 – 119
  • Zhao E. M. and Jiang Y. M. 1966. A survey and checklist of Yunnan reptiles. [in Chinese] Chinese J. Zool. 8(3): 127 – 130
  • Zhao E. M., Zhao K., Zhou K. Y. 1999. Fauna Sinica, Reptilia, Vol. 2, Squamata, Lacertilia. [In Chinese] Beijing: Science Press, 394 pp
  • Zhao, E & Yang, D. 1997. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Hengduan Mountain Region. [in Chinese] Science Press, Beijing, 303 pp.
 
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