Sitana sushili DEEPAK,TILLACK, KAR, SARKAR & MOHAPATRA, 2021
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Sitana sushili
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| Higher Taxa | Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Sushil’s fan-throated lizard |
| Synonym | Sitana sushili DEEPAK,TILLACK, KAR, SARKAR & MOHAPATRA 2021 Sitana ponticeriana — SANYHAL 1993: 57 [in part] Sitana ponticeriana — CHANDRA & GAJBE 2005: 1815 [in part] Sitana ponticeriana — CHAKRABORTY et al. 2008: 192–193 Sitana ponticeriana — DUTTA et al. 2009: 68 Sitana ponticeriana — MURTHY et al. 2018: 501 Sitana ponticeriana — CHANDRA et al. 2018: 309–310 Sitana ponticeriana — CHANDRA et al. 2018: 361 Sitana ponticeriana — CHANDRA et al. 2018: 368–369 Sitana ponticeriana — CHANDRA et al. 2018: 242 Sitana ponticeriana — CHANDRA et al. 2018: 245. Sitana cf. ponticeriana — MANTHEY 2010: 153 [in part] plate RA04163-4. |
| Distribution | India (Odisha) Type locality: Chiplima, Sambalpur district, Odisha, India (21.3501°N, 83. 9137°E), 174 m elevation |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. BNHS 2511 an adult male (Fig. 1), collected on 14 June 2014 by V. Deepak, S.K. Behera & N. B. Kar. Paratypes (n=2). ZSI-CZRC V-7176 an adult female collected by V. Deepak, S.K. Behera and N. B. Kar; ZSI-CZRC V-7177, an adult male collected by P. Mohapatra on 15 April 2015 both collected from Brooks hill, Sambalpur (21.483°N, 83.766°N), 183 m elevation (Appendix 2). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small sized Sitana (maximum SVL 48 mm), having 42–48 vertebral scales (42–48 in males, 44–47 in females), 61–94 ventrals (82–94 in males, 61–70 in females), 49–57 mid body scale rows; in adult males, dewlap with single dark blue line and dewlap scales mottled with brown, 0.10–0.23 % dewlap in trunk; brown dorsum with five black rhomboidal markings and venter off white with brown speckles. The new species differs from its congeners by the following combination of characters: 1) dewlap feebly ser- rated without bright orange patches in breeding males (vs. well serrated in breeding males of S. ponticeriana, S. visiri, S. marudhamneydhal and S. devakai), 2) dewlap extending beyond forearm insertion (vs. not extending in S. schleichi, S. sivalensis and S. fusca), 3) four less prominent enlarged non spine like scales bordering the occipital region (vs. enlarged spine like scales in S. spinaecephalus), 4) dewlap medium sized extending up to 23 % of trunk (vs. dewlap extending up to 29%, 45% and 46.5 % of trunk in S. laticeps, S. dharwarensis and S. spinaecephalus respectively and up to 42% of trunk in Sitana sp1 (in Deepak & Karanth, 2018), 5) body size small SVL(mm) = mean 43.7 +/- 0.59 SE, range 40–48.3 (n=18) (vs. large in S. gokakensis (SVL(mm): mean 48.8 +/- 3.6 SE; range 42.4–53.1; n=14) and S. thondalu (SVL(mm): mean 50.2 +/- 0.93 SE; range 44.9–56.3; n=19). |
| Comment | Only limited information and bibliography provided as authors did not supply them upon request. Distribution: see map in Deepak et al. 2021: 269 (Fig. 4). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet is a patronym named in honor of ProfessorSushil Kumar Dutta from Odisha, India, for his continued support of our research in this region and for promoting herpetology in India through the “School in Herpetology”. |
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