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Gonocephalus megalepis (BLEEKER, 1860)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Bleeker's Forest Dragon 
SynonymLophyrus megalepis BLEEKER 1860: 327
Tiaris tuberculatus GÜNTHER 1872: 593 (fide BOULENGER 1887)
Gonyocephalus tuberculatus — BOULENGER 1885: 291
Gonyocephalus megalepis — BOULENGER 1887: 152
Gonyocephalus megalepis — DE ROOIJ 1915: 107
Gonocephalus megalepis — WERMUTH 1967: 60
Gonocephalus megalepis — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 188
Gonocephalus megalepis — TEYNIÉ et al. 2010
Gonocephalus megalepis — HARVEY et al. 2021 
DistributionIndonesia (Sumatra)

Type locality: Agam, Sumatra.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.8.27.21, male, (= holotype of Tiaris tuberculatus), Dr. Bleeker, apparently also the holotype of megalepis (fide W. Denzer, pers. comm., 18 June 2019)
 
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CommentSynonymy mostly after WERMUTH 1967.

Distribution: see map in Harvey et la. 2021: 106 (Fig. 7).

Type locality: “East Indian Archipelago” [Tiaris tuberculatus]

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is derived from the two Greek stems μεγας (mégas) meaning ‘very large’ and λεπ ́ις (lepís) meaning ‘scale’, and refers to the large size of the scales. 
References
  • Bleeker, P. 1860. Reptilien van Agam. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, Batavia, 20: 325-329 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1887. Note on some reptiles from Sumatra described by BLEEKER in 1860. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 20: 152 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Günther, A. 1872. On the reptiles and amphibians of Borneo. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 586-600. - get paper here
  • Harvey, Michael B., Sarker, Goutam C., Sidik, Irvan, Kurniawan, Nia, and Smith, Eric N. 2023. A Contribution to the Systematics of Sunda Shelf Angle- Headed Dragons (Agamidae: Gonocephalus) with the Description of New Taxa from Sumatra. Herpetological Monographs, 37(1): 1-40 - get paper here
  • Harvey, Michael B.; Inna Rech, Awal Riyanto, Nia Kurniawan & Eric N. Smith 2021. A New Angle-Headed Dragon (Agamidae: Gonocephalus) from Montane Forests of the Southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra. Herpetologica Mar 2021 Vol. 77, No. 1: 94-109 - get paper here
  • Manthey U 2010. Agamid Lizards of Southern Asia. Draconinae 2 -Leiolepidinae. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 7b, Frankfurt, 168 pp.
  • Manthey U; Denzer W 1991. Die Echten Winkelkopfagamen der Gattung Gonocephalus Kaup (Sauria: Agamidae). 1. Die megalepis-Gruppe mit Gonocephalus lacunosus sp. n. aus Nord-Sumatra. Sauria 13 (1): 3-10 - get paper here
  • Manthey, U. & Grossmann, W. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 512 pp. (ISBN 3-931587-12-6) - get paper here
  • TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
 
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