Diploderma bifluviale LIU, WU, ZHANG, YANG, LIU, CHEN, CHANG, XIE & CAI, 2025
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Diploderma bifluviale
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| Higher Taxa | Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Upper Dadu Mountain Lizard Chinese: 双江口攀蜥 (Shuāng jiāng kǒu Pānxī) |
| Synonym | Diploderma bifluviale LIU, WU, ZHANG, YANG, LIU, CHEN, CHANG, XIE & CAI 2025: 26 Japalura flaviceps — ZHAO 2003: 84 |
| Distribution | China (Sichuan) Type locality: Baiwan Town (31.809249°N, 101.88182°E, 2306 m a.s.l.), Barkam City, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: CIB119368 (field number CB23JC04), adult male. Allotype: • CIB119369 (field number CB23JC08), adult female, also collected from Baiwan Town (31.803494°N, 101.91378°E, 2525 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 5B). Paratypes: subadult CIB-CB23JC02 and female CIB-CB23JC03 are collected from Baiwan Town (31.807989°N, 101.886555°E, 2314 m); • juve- nile CIB-CB23JC05, male CIB-CB23JC06 and female CIB-CB23JC07 are col- lected from the same location as holotype; male CIB-CB23JC19 and female CIB-CB23JC20 are collected from Baiwan Town (31.809273°N, 101.881811°E, 2304 m a.s.l.), and juvenile CIB-201808022 was collected from Baiwan Town (31.808662°N 101.883118°E, 2290 m a.s.l.), • female YBU23081 (GP10410) was collected from Lewu Town (31.466004°N, 102.091464°E, 2252 m a.s.l.), Jinchuan County Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China, and subadult YBU22294 was collected from Xinsha village (31.59322°N, 102.06453°E, 2187 m a.s.l.), Jichuan County. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Diploderma bifluviale sp. nov. can be diagnosed from other Diploderma species by a combination of the following morphological characteristics: (1) body size short, SVL 62.51~64.47 mm, mean 63.62 mm (sample standard deviation 1.01) in adult males, 63.13~72.55 mm, mean 68.41 mm (3.53) in adult females; (2) tail short, TAL/SVL 1.41~1.53, mean 1.48 (0.06) in adult males, 1.37~1.56, mean 1.46 (0.08) in adult female; (3) head relatively long, HW/HL 0.71~0.78, mean 0.75 (0.03) in adult males, 0.68~0.74, mean 0.72 (0.02) in adult females; (4) limbs moderately long, FLL/SVL 0.42~0.44, mean 0.43 (0.01) in adult males, 0.41~0.42, mean 0.41 (0.01) in adult females, HLL/SVL 0.64~0.69, mean 0.66 (0.03) in adult males, 0.64~0.69, mean 0.65 (0.02) in adult females; (5) MD 49~54; (6) F4S 15~17, T4S 20~23; (7) tympanum concealed; (8) nuchal and dorsal crests almost continuous, scales of nuchal and dorsal crests enlarged, moderately erected skin fold under nuchal in males in life, weakly erected skin fold under nuchal crest and no skin fold under dorsal crest in females in life; (9) distinct transverse gular fold present; (10) ventral scales of head almost uniform in size, posterior and side ones smaller, all strongly keeled; (11) ventral scales of body strongly keeled; (12) gular spot absent in both sexes; (13) dorsolateral stripes distinct in males, strongly jagged and the upper and lower edges are almost touching each other, pale yellow in life; (14) a series of dark spots or a dark stripe like large wavy between dorsolateral stripes on dorsum; (15) a distinct wide black stripe on shoulder fold region on each side; (16) stripes around eye absent or very indistinct; (17) tongue wheat color in life; (18) fourth toe with claw reaching either the tympanum or the area between shoulder and tympanum when hind limbs adpressed forward (Table 2). (Liu et al. 2025) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 10431 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Distribution: See map of localities in Liu et al. 2025: 18 (Fig. 1). |
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