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Gonocephalus inauris HARVEY, SARKAR, SIDIK, KURNIAWAN & SMITH, 2023

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymGonocephalus inauris HARVEY, SARKAR, SIDIK, KURNIAWAN & SMITH 2023 
DistributionIndonesia (Sumatra: Bengkulu)

Type locality: “trail up Gunung Kambing from police academy near road to Gunung Kaba Rejang Lubong, Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia, 1546 m elevation, 3.399468 S, 102.633128 E”  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MZB 15389, Female, Field Tag 18633, GenBank accession number OP070038; Fig. 13), collected 22 July 2015 by E. Wostl, E. N. Smith, G. C. Sarker, and G. Pradana. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of Gonocephalus distinguished from all congeners by having (1) 6 or 7 loreals separating last canthal and supralabials; (2) 8 infraorbitals; (3) 58 scales around midbod; (4) distinctly enlarged suboculars contacting supralabials; (5) nasal broadly contacting 2 or 3 supralabials; (6) nuchal and dorsal crests separated by pectoral gap spanning 13 scales; (8) gulars crest of 11 projecting triangular scales, total gular scales 39 from mental or chinshields to point where gular pouch attaches to chest; (9) rostral single, 2.7 times as wide as tall; (10) 1 very large tubercular scale ventral to tympanum, lateral to posterior end of mandible; (11) scales on lower flanks heterogenous, large scales or small patches of large scales separated from one another by much smaller scales; (12) keeling very reduced over much of body, gulars and ventrals smooth or feebly arched; (13) in life, green with bold black banding. (Harvey et al. 2023)


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CommentBehavior: The holotype was sleeping on a leaf, 0.75 m aboveground in closed-canopy montane forest at 21:43 h. 
EtymologyThe name inauris is a feminine noun in apposition, meaning earring, eardrop, or pendant in Latin. The new name calls attention to the largest scale on the holotype: the pale yellow, rounded, and domed subtympanic scale. 
References
  • Harvey, Michael B., Sarker, Goutam C., Sidik, Irvan, Kurniawan, Nia, and Smith, Eric N. 2023. A Contribution to the Systematics of Sunda Shelf Angle- Headed Dragons (Agamidae: Gonocephalus) with the Description of New Taxa from Sumatra. Herpetological Monographs, 37(1): 1-40 - get paper here
 
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