Draco timoriensis KUHL, 1820

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Timor Flying Dragon G: Timor-Flugdrache
Synonym	Draco Timoriensis KUHL 1820 (fide DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837) Draco timoriensis — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 454 Draco timorensis — BOULENGER 1885: 261 Draco timorensis — LIDTH DE JEUDE 1895: 122 Draco timorensis — WERNER 1910: 9 Draco timorensis — DE ROOIJ 1915: 74 Draco volans timoriensis — WERMUTH 1967: 55 Draco volans timorensis — MUSTERS 1983:91 Draco timorensis — MCGUIRE & KIEW 2001 Draco timoriensis — KAISER et al. 2011
Distribution	Indonesia (Timor, Roti, Alos, Semau, Wetar), Timor-Leste Type locality: Timor
Reproduction	oviparous
Types
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A subspecies reaching a snout-vent length of 93 m m; large spinelike tubercles innuchal region; dorsals 84-129, unequal, keeled, with arow of enlarged, keeled scales along each side of the vertebral line; chin inmales light with more or less dense, dark spots, i n females light, sometimes with few spots (as volans timoriensis, Musters 1983: 91).
Comment	Types: Musters 1983 does not list any types for this species (although he does list a number of specimens examined).
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	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 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 Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1837. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 4. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 570 pp. - get paper here Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 Kaiser, Hinrich; Venancio Lopes Carvalho, Jester Ceballos, Paul Freed, Scott Heacox, Barbara Lester, Stephen J. Richards, Colin R. Trainor, Caitlin Sanchez, Mark O’Shea 2011. The herpetofauna of Timor-Leste: a first report. ZooKeys 109 (2011): 19-86 - get paper here Kuhl,H. 1820. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Hermannsche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt, 152 pp. - get paper here Lidth de Jeude, Th. W. van. 1895. Reptiles from Timor and the neighbouring islands. Notes from the Leyden Museum 16: 119-127 - get paper here 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 Musters, C. J. M. 1983. Taxonomy of the genus Draco L. (Agamidae, Lacertilia, Reptilia). Zoologische Verhandelingen (199): 1-120 - get paper here O’SHEA, Mark; Caitlin SANCHEZ, Andrew KATHRINER, Sven MECKE, Venancio LOPES CARVALHO, Agivedo VARELA RIBEIRO, Zito AFRANIO SOARES, Luis LEMOS DE ARAUJO and Hinrich KAISER 2015. Herpetological Diversity of Timor-Leste: Updates and a Review of Species Distributions. Asian Herpetological Research 6 (2): 73–131 - get paper here O’SHEA, Mark; Caitlin SANCHEZ, Scott HEACOX, Andrew KATHRINER, Venancio LOPES CARVALHO, Agivedo VARELA RIBEIRO, Zito AFRANIO SOARES, Luis LEMOS DE ARAUJO and Hinrich KAISER 2012. First Update to Herpetofaunal Records from Timor-Leste. Asian Herpetological Research 3 (2): 114–126 - get paper here Reilly, Sean B., Alexander L. Stubbs, Evy Arida, Benjamin R. Karin, Umilaela Arifin, Hinrich Kaiser, Ke Bi, Djoko T. Iskandar & Jimmy A. McGuire. 2021. Phylogenomic Analysis Reveals Dispersal-Driven Speciation and Divergence with Gene Flow in Lesser Sunda Flying Lizards (Genus Draco). Systematic Biology 71(1): 221–241 - get paper here Sanchez, Caitlin; Venancio Lopes Carvalho,, Andrew Kathriner, Mark O’Shea and Hinrich Kaiser 2012. First report on the herpetofauna of the Oecusse District, an exclave of Timor-Leste. Herpetology Notes 5: 137-149 Werner,F. 1910. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. ii. Eidechsen. Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst., vol. 27 (1909), suppl. no. 2, 1910, pp. 1-46; reprinted: 1910, Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 27: 205-) - get paper here
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