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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Anderson's Mountain lizard
G: Andersons Bergwaldagame
Chinese: 长肢攀蜥 
SynonymJapalura andersoniana ANNANDALE 1905: 85
Japalura andersoniana — SMITH 1935: 173
Japalura andersoniana — WERMUTH 1967: 65
Japalura andersoniana — DAS 1996: 44
Japalura andersoniana — MANTHEY et al. 2012
Japalura andersoniana — WANG et al. 2018 
DistributionE India (between Bhutan and Assam, Dafla Hills, Abor County; Arunachal Pradesh), elevation 4000 feet, Bhutan
China (Xizang)

Type locality: Duffla [= Dafla], Assam/Bhutan border (fide WERMUTH 1967).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 4104 (maybe lectotype as also given as syntype), male; Paratype: BMNH 1946.8.13.95; ZSI 15755 (from ‘Nainital, 6,600 ft.’) is also listed as a type. 
Diagnosis 
CommentThis is a highly variable species. See Anole Annals and Bhosale et al. 2013 for details. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. John Anderson (1833-1900), Professor of Natural History at Free Church College, Edinburgh, and Curator of the Indian Museum, Calcutta (1865). 
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
  • Annandale, Nelson 1905. Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. Suppl. II. Notes on the Oriental lizards in the Indian Museum, with a list of the species recorded from British India and Ceylon. J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) 1: 81-93 - get paper here
  • Athreya, R. 2006. Eaglenest Biodiversity Project (2003 – 2006): Conservation resources for Eaglenest wildlife sanctuary. Kaati Trust, Pune, 196 pp. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Bhosale, H., A. DAS & U. MANTHEY 2013. Neue Fundorte und Farbvariationen von Japalura andersoniana ANNANDALE, 1905 (Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae). Sauria 35 (3): 55-60 - 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.
  • 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
  • Manthey U 2010. Agamid Lizards of Southern Asia. Draconinae 2 -Leiolepidinae. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 7b, Frankfurt, 168 pp.
  • MANTHEY, ULRICH; WOLFGANG DENZER, HOU MIAN & WANG XIAOHE 2012. Discovered in historical collections: Two new Japalura species (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yulong Snow Mountains, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan, PR China. Zootaxa 3200: 27–48 - get paper here
  • Mishra, Anurag. 2014. Ergänzende Beobachtungen an Japalura andersoniana Annandale, 1905 (Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae) aus Arunachal Pradesh, Indien. Additional observations on Japalura andersoniana Annandale, 1905 (Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae) from Arunachal Pradeash, I Sauria 36 (3): 57-61 - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
  • Venugopal, P.D. 2010. An updated and annotated list of Indian lizards (Reptilia: Sauria) based on a review of distribution records and checklists of Indian reptiles. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (3): 725-738. - get paper here
  • Waltner, R.C. 1975. Geographical and altitudinal distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the Himalayas. Cheetal (Dehra Dun, India) 16(1): 17-25; 16(2): 28-36; 16(3): 14-19; 16(4): 12-17.
  • 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
  • Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
 
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