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Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi (URBAN, 1999)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymGonocephalus schultzewestrumi URBAN 1999
Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi — MANTHEY & DENZER 2000
Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi — MANTHEY & DENZER 2006: 23 
DistributionPapua New Guinea (and probably West Papua Province, Indonesia).

Type locality: near Nondugl, Papua New Guinea (5°52’S, 144°46’E).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSM 1965/82, paratype: ZSM 1965/89 
DiagnosisDiagnosis:– Medium–sized, slender, long–tailed species with homogeneous dorsal scalation and a discontinuous vertebral crest. Extremely large plates below the tympanum and several extremely large gulars; a row of enlarged submaxillaries present; upper part of the anterior edge of the gular pouch with enlarged scales.
H. schultzewestrumi differs from all other species by the presence of large plates on the sides of the head, maximum size of the largest scale > Ø tympanum (vs. ≤ Ø tympanum), several large gulars ≥ Ø tympanum (vs. ≈ Ø tympanum), as well as a saw–toothed anterior edge of the gular pouch consisting of enlarged scales (vs. anterior edge of the gular pouch smooth); additionally from boydii, spinipes and dilophus by a homogeneous dorsal scalation (vs. heterogeneous) and a longer tail TL/SVL > 3.0 (vs. < 2.3) (Manthey & Denzer 2006: 23). 
CommentSimilar species: H. nigrigularis.

H. schultzewestrumi was originally described in an unpublished thesis (Urban 1977). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Thomas Schultze-Westrum, a Geman zoologist, ecologist, and filmmaker based in Greece. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Denzer, Wolfgang; Ulrich Manthey 2016. Remarks on the taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus Hypsilurus Peters, 1867 (Reptilia, Agamidae, Amphibolurinae). Zoosyst. Evol. 92 (1): 103–110; DOI: 10.3897/zse.92.7469 - get paper here
  • Manthey, U. & Denzer, W. 2006. A revision of the Melanesian-Australian angle head lizards of the genus Hypsilurus (Sauria: Agamidae: Amphibolurinae), with description of four new species and one new subspecies. Hamadryad 30 (1-2): 1 – 40 - get paper here
  • Manthey, U. & W. Denzer 2000. Description of a new genus, Hypsicalotes gen. nov. (Sauria: Agamidae) from Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo, with remarks on the generic identity of Gonocephalus schultzewestrumi Urban, 1999. Hamadryad 25 (1): 13-20 - get paper here
  • MANTHEY, U. & W. DENZER 2016. Melanesian anglehead lizards of the genus Hypsilurus Peters, 1867 – Part 1: Species from New Guinea. Sauria 38 (3): 11 - 36 - get paper here
  • Tallowin, Oliver J S; Shai Meiri, Stephen C Donnellan, Stephen J Richards, Christopher C Austin, Paul M Oliver, 2019. The other side of the Sahulian coin: biogeography and evolution of Melanesian forest dragons (Agamidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 99-113. - get paper here
  • Urban, Hermann. 1999. Eine neue Agamenart der Gattung Gonocephalus aus Papua - Neu Guinea (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae). Herpetozoa 11 (3/4) [1998]:185-188 - get paper here
 
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