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Diploderma splendidum (BARBOUR & DUNN, 1919)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Splendid Japalure, Green Striped Tree Dragon
G: Chinesische Bergagame
Chinese: 丽纹龙蜥 
SynonymJapalura splendida BARBOUR & DUNN 1919
Japalura splendida — POPE 1935: 467
Japalura splendida — SMITH 1935: 175
Japalura splendida — WETTSTEIN 1938: 177
Japalura splendida — WERMUTH 1967: 68
Japalura splendida — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 75
Japalura splendida — MANTHEY et al. 2012
Diploderma splendidum — WANG et al. 2018 
DistributionSW China (NE Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei), Hunan

Type locality: from the gorge of the Yangtze River near Tchang, Hupeh (= Hubei), central China.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 35522; Paratypes: USNM 35523, half-grown 
Diagnosis 
CommentImage in Elaphe 12 (4): 33.

Similar species: J. splendida. Previous reports of Japalura splendida in Yunnan may represent J. slowinskii. Similarly, reports of splendidum from Salween River Valley in SE Tibet are misidentification of D. slowinskii (Kai Wang, pers. comm., 19 Dec 2020). 
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
  • Barbour, Thomas & Dunn, Emmett Reid 1919. Two new Chinese Japaluras. Proc. New England zool. Club 7: 15-19 - 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, Xue-yuan; Wu, Hong-bo; Zhao, Shen; Fu, Mei-li; Li, Zong-yun. 2006. Analysis of pachyten chromosome karyotype and micro-chrosomes of Japalura splendida. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 25(2):237-240. [In Chinese] - get paper here
  • GAO, ZHIWEI; TIANYU QIAN, JIANPING JIANG, DEJIA HOU, XUEJIAN DENG & DAODE YANG. 2022. Species diversity and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in Hunan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (2): 21290, 1–15 - get paper here
  • Hallermann, J. 2005. The bizarre arboreal agamids. Reptilia (GB) (42): 8-15 - get paper here
  • Hallermann, J. 2005. Mit Hörnern, Kämmen und Gleithäuten - die bizarren Baumagamen. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (51): 18-25 - get paper here
  • Kunz, K. 2012. Bild schön! Fotografie von Terrarientieren. Reptilia (Münster) 17 (94): 20-26 - get paper here
  • Laue, E. 2005. Zur Haltung und Vermehrung der Chinesischen Bergagame Japalura splendida BARBOUR & DUNN 1919. Elaphe 13 (1): 20-30
  • Laue, E. 2009. Erfahrungen mit Krankheiten und Verlusten bei der langjährigen Pflege und Nachzucht cer Chinesischen Bergagame Japalura splendida, veranschaulicht durch drei Fallbeispiele. Iguana Rundschreiben 22 (1): 21-30
  • Laue, Esther 2009. Die chinesische Bergagame. Vivaria Verlag, 96 pp.
  • Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva, Y. Wang, R. Pethiyagoda, N. Rastegar-Pouyani, T. J. Papenfuss 2000. Evaluating trans-Tethys migration: an example using acrodont lizard phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 49 (2): 233-256 - 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
  • Manthey,U. & SCHUSTER,N. 1999. Agamen, 2. Aufl. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 120 pp. - get paper here
  • Ota,H. 1989. A new species of Japalura (Agamidae: Lacertilia:Reptilia) from Taiwan. Copeia 1989 (3): 569-576 - get paper here
  • Pope, CLIFFORD H. 1935. The Reptiles of China. Turtes, Crocodilians, Snakes, Lizards. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, Nat. Hist. Central Asia, 10: lii, 1-604 - get paper here
  • Schradin, H. 2004. Haltung und Nachzucht der chinesischen Bergagame (Japalura splendida). Reptilia (Münster) 9 (49): 56-66 - get paper here
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  • 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
  • Wettstein, O. 1938. Eine neue Japalura aus Cambodja. Zool. Anz. 122: 175-177
  • Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
 
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