Draco modiglianii VINCIGUERRA, 1892

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Lined Flying Dragon
Synonym	Draco modiglianii VINCIGUERRA 1892: 523 Draco modiglianii — DE ROOIJ 1915: 78 Draco lineatus modiglianii — MUSTERS 1983: 45 Draco modiglianii — MCGUIRE & KIEW 2001
Distribution	Indonesia (Enggano Island, ca. 80 km off the west coast of Sumatra) Type locality: Engano “(Chifaiuc, Malaconni e Bua Bua”)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype: BMNH 1946.8.26.92 (91.11.9), female
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A subspecies reaching a snout-vent length of 71 m m; supralabials 6-9; tympanum usually covered with smooth skin; lateral pouch with slightly enlarged scales; dorsals 110-135; six or seven ribs in patagium; lateral parts of nuchal region in males with light spots (as lineatus modiglianii, Musters 1983: 45).
Comment	See also Draco lineatus. Max. SVL 67 mm. D. modigliani differs from all members of the D. lineatus group in having a strong statistical mode of six ribs supporting the patagium (as opposed to five), a character state that it shares with the D. volans group (MCGUIRE et al. 2007).
References	de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here Iqbal, Muhammad; Adi Kuswanto, Kurratul Aini, Arum Setiawan, Indra Yustian 2021. Predation of an Enggano Flying Lizard (Draco modiglianii Vinciguerra, 1892) (Squamata: Agamidae) by a Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) on Enggano Island, Indonesia. Herpetology Notes 14: 49-51 - get paper here McGuire, Jimmy A. & Heang, Kiew Bong 2001. Phylogenetic systematics of Southeast Asian flying lizards (Iguania: Agamidae: Draco) as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72: 203–229 - get paper here Musters, C. J. M. 1983. Taxonomy of the genus Draco L. (Agamidae, Lacertilia, Reptilia). Zoologische Verhandelingen (199): 1-120 - get paper here Vinciguerra, D. 1892. Rettili e batraci di Engano. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova, 2. Ser. 7 (32): 517-526. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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