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Diploderma flaviceps (BARBOUR & DUNN, 1919)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Szechwan japalure
Chinese: 草绿龙蜥 
SynonymJapalura flaviceps BARBOUR & DUNN 1919
Japalura yunnanensis — BOULENGER 1885: 310 (part.)
Japalura swinhoei (sic) — VOGT 1924: 338 (part.)
Japalura flaviceps — WERMUTH 1967: 66
Japalura flaviceps — SMITH 1935: 176
Japalura flaviceps — MACEY et al. 2000
Japalura flaviceos [sic] — LI et al. 2003
Japalura flaviceps — MANTHEY 2010
Diploderma flaviceps — WANG et al. 2018 
DistributionChina (W/S Sichuan: Luding County)

Type locality: Tung River [= Dadu River], Western Szechuan [= Sichuan], ca. 30.6006° 101.4621° (WGS84)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ R-12469 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: reports from Gansu, Shenxi (Shaanxi), Shanxi and possibly Qinghai are misidentifications of D. micangshanense (Wang et al. 2019). Want et al.restricted D. flaviceps to the Dadu River area, so that the species does not occur in Tibet or Yunnan anymore. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin flavus = yellow and “ceps” = head, although the head is not really yellow but has white and yellowish speckles. 
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
  • GOA, ZHENG-FA & M. HOU 2002. Description of a new Japalura species from western Sichuan Province, China [In Chinese]. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 21 (2): 3-5 - get paper here
  • Kühnel, K.-D., K. Kabisch & H.- J. Herrmann 1995. Freilandbeobachtungen von drei Arten der Gattung Japalura (Reptilia: Agamidae) in Sichuan und Yunnan (China). Sauria 17 (4): 31-37 - get paper here
  • Li, Yong-Xiang; Xue, Xiang-Xu; Li, Xiao-Chen and Liu, Hu-Jun 2003. Additional notes of the [tooth] characteristics of some modern lizards. Acta Zool. Sinica 49 (4): 547-550
  • Liu, J., Yu, J., Zhou, M., & Yang, J. 2018. Complete mitochondrial genome of Japalura flaviceps: Deep insights into the phylogeny and gene rearrangements of Agamidae species. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules - get paper here
  • 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
  • Ota,H. 1989. A new species of Japalura (Agamidae: Lacertilia:Reptilia) from Taiwan. Copeia 1989 (3): 569-576 - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
  • 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
  • WANG, KAI; JINLONG REN, KE JIANG, ZHIYONG YUAN, JING CHE, CAMERON D. SILER 2017. Rediscovery of the enigmatic Mountain Dragon, Japalura yulongensis (Reptilia: Sauria: Agamidae), with notes on its natural history and conservation. Zootaxa 4318 (2): 351–363 - get paper here
  • Zhang, D. H. H. H. D., & Rao, N. X. D. 2022. Diversity of amphibians and reptiles in Yunnan regions of the Yunling Mountains. Biodiversity Science, 22316 - get paper here
  • Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
 
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