Takydromus haughtonianus JERDON, 1870

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Goalpora Grass Lizard
Synonym	Tachydromus haughtonianus JERDON 1870: 72 Tachydromus haughtonianus — ANDERSON 1871: 156 Tachydromus haughtonianus — GÜNTHER 1888: 169 Takydromus haughtonianus — SMITH 1935: 369 Takydromus haughtonianus — DAS 1996: 49 Takydromus haughtonianus — SCHLÜTER 2003: 57
Distribution	NE India (Assam) Type locality: Goalpara, Assam
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZSI 2195
Diagnosis
Comment	Status unclear. This species is only known from the single type specimen and shows overlapping characters with T. sexlineatus). Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after Major-General Henry Lawrence Haughton (1883-1955), an officer in the Indian army (1904-1943).
References	Anderson, J. 1871. On some Indian reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1871: 149-211 - 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 Günther, A. 1888. On a collection of reptiles from China. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 1: 165-172 - get paper here Jerdon, T.C. 1870. Notes on Indian Herpetology. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal March 1870: 66-85 - get paper here Lin, Si-Min; Chaolun Allen Chen and Kuang-Yang Lue 2002. Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Grass Lizards Genus Takydromus (Reptilia: Lacertidae) of East Asia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22: 276-288 [erratum in 26: 333] - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Purkayastha J. 2013. An Amateur’s Guide to Reptiles of Assam. EBH Publishers (India) - get paper here Schlüter, U. 2003. Die Langschwanzeidechsen der Gattung Takydromus. Kirschner & Seufer Verlag, 110 pp. [review in Draco 21: 91, Elaphe 13 (2): 22] - 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
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=3&Species=31 Google images

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