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Draco norvillii ALCOCK, 1895

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Norvill's Flying Lizard
G: Norvills Flugdrache 
SynonymDraco norvilli ALCOCK 1895
Draco norvilli — SMITH 1935: 142
Draco norvilli — SMITH 1940: 476
Draco blanfordii norvilli — MUSTERS 1983: 17
Draco blanfordii norvilli — DAS 1996: 44
Draco norvillii — BARTS & WILMS 2003
Draco blanfordii norvilli — DAS 2011: 67 
DistributionIndia (Assam: Naga Hills, Doom Dooma; Arunachal Pradesh, NE India), N Myanmar (fide Musters 1983: 17)

Type locality: "Assam", with no further information.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 13767 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: — Patagium inmales with indistinct,dark bands; base ofthe gular pouch dark grey, with light spots at the border with the lateral pouches; gular pouch i n males 1.65-1.67 times the head length (Musters 1983: 17).


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CommentDistribution: possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012). The North-east Indian State of Assam in now divided into seven states. See map in Manthey 2010: 109. Because of the similarity between D. norvillii and D. blanfordi, the single report from Myanmar (Musters 1983) is likely D. blanfordi, not norvillii.

Synonymy: likely to be a synonym of D. blanfordi. There are no diagnostic morphological characters that distinguish the two species (J. McGuire, pers. comm., 26 June 2019). 
References
  • Alcock, A. 1895. On a new species of Flying lizard from Assam. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 64 (1): 14-15 + 1 plate
  • Barts, M. & Wilms, T. 2003. Die Agamen der Welt. Draco 4 (14): 4-23 - get paper here
  • Das, Indraneil & Abhijit Das 2017. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 176 pp.
  • Islam, Mazedul & Prasanta Kumar Saikia 2013. Inventory and Natural History of Lizards in Jeypore Rerserve Forest, Assam. Reptile Rap (15): 16-26 - get paper here
  • Lenz, Norbert 2012. Von Schmetterlingen und Donnerdrachen - Natur und Kultur in Bhutan. Karlsruher Naturhefte 4, Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe, 124 pp.
  • 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
  • Murthy, T.S.N. 1990. A field book of the lizards of India. Records Zool. Survey India 115: 1-122 - 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
  • Purkayastha J. 2013. An Amateur’s Guide to Reptiles of Assam. EBH Publishers (India) - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1940. The Amphibians and Reptiles obtained by Mr. Ronald Kaulback in Upper Burma. Records of the Indian Museum 42: 465-486 - get paper here
 
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