Aphaniotis kumbakarna HARVEY, SIDIK, KURNIAWAN & SMITH, 2025
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Aphaniotis kumbakarna
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| Higher Taxa | Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Aphaniotis kumbakarna HARVEY, SIDIK, KURNIAWAN & SMITH 2025 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (N Sumatra) Type locality: trail just above the old road to a gold mining camp from the Kecamatan Geumpong transmigrant community, Kabupaten Pidie, Provinsi Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, 1161 m, 4.855568N, 96.217988E |
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| Types | Holotype: MZB Lace-15678, An adult male (field tag ENS 21046), collected by E.N. Smith and M.B. Harvey on 1 June 2016 at 2002 h. Paratypes (8). Same locality as the holotype except for geographic coordinates, elevation, time, and/or collectors. An adult male (MZB Lace-15682, ENS 21067), 1108 m, 4.860248N, 96.213688E, collected by I. Sidik and Ahmad M. Kadafi, and seven additional specimens collected by E.N. Smith and M.B. Harvey: a subadult male (MZB Lace-15679, ENS 21035), 1208 m, 4.857148N, 96.218348E, 1919 h; an adult male (UTA R-66434, ENS 21036), 1151 m, 4.856818N, 96.217938E, 1927 h; a juvenile female (MZB Lace-15680, ENS 21037), 1206 m, 4.856628N, 96.217958E, 1934 h; juvenile males (UTA R-66435–36, ENS 21043, 21047), 1161 m, 4.855568N, 96.217988E; a subadult male (MZB Lace-15681, ENS 21050), 1134 m, 4.854948N, 96.21818E; and an adult female (UTA R-66437, ENS 21051), 1134 m, 4.854948N, 96.21818E. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A robust species of Aphaniotis differing from all congeners in having a leaf-like projection on the dorsal snout with 8 – 12 scale rows counted from the base of the projection to its distal tip, 75 – 87 combined gulars and ventrals from the mental to anterior lip of the cloaca, and heavily keeled to prismatic parietal scales without a visible parietal eye. (Harvey 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 24292 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
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| Etymology | Named after Indonesian Wayang Kulit (usually called shadow puppetry in English), and its character Kumba-karna, brother of the king Ravana in the Hindu epic Ramayana, usually depicted as having a particularly large laterally compressed nose, reminiscent of the rostral appendage of A. kumbakarna. |
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