Diploderma brevipes (GRESSITT, 1936)

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Short-legged Japalure
Synonym	Japalura brevipes GRESSITT 1936: 117 Japalura brevipes — WERMUTH 1967: 65 Japalura brevipes — BARTS & WILMS 2003 Japalura brevipes — MANTHEY 2010 Diploderma brevipes — WANG et al. 2018
Distribution	C Taiwan (Formosa) Type locality: Bukai, near Horisha, Central Formosa (1200 m)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 71998, female; Paratypes: MVZ 19308, female; MVZ 23357–58, one female and one juvenile; same locality as the holotype
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (n=4). Dorsal head scales large, irregularly rugose; dorsal crest feeble, composed of smaller, and less carinate, scales than those of a parallel row on either side of it; snout broad; hind legs short; color pale bluish green, with broad transverse dorsal bands and lateral spots of brown or black; lips and throat pale.” (Gressitt 1936) 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 953 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin “brevis, -e” = short and “pes, pedis” = foot.
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 Barts, M. & Wilms, T. 2003. Die Agamen der Welt. Draco 4 (14): 4-23 - 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 Gressitt,J.L. 1936. New reptiles from Formosa and Hainan. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 49: 117-121 - get paper here Manthey U 2010. Agamid Lizards of Southern Asia. Draconinae 2 -Leiolepidinae. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 7b, Frankfurt, 168 pp. Ota,H. 1989. A new species of Japalura (Agamidae: Lacertilia:Reptilia) from Taiwan. Copeia 1989 (3): 569-576 - get paper here Ota,H. 1989. Japalura brevipes GRESSITT (Agamidae: Reptilia), a valid species from a high altitude area of Taiwan. Herpetologica 45: 55-60 - 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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