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Tympanocryptis petersi MELVILLE, CHAPLIN, HIPSLEY, SARRE, SUMNER & HUTCHINSON, 2019

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Lined Earless Dragon 
SynonymTympanocryptis petersi MELVILLE, CHAPLIN, HIPSLEY, SARRE, SUMNER & HUTCHINSON 2019 
DistributionAustralia (South Australia)

Type locality: ‘Buchfelde’, near Gawler, South Australia
[approximately 34°35’, 138°31’ S],  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. ZMB 54549 (formerly 4714, part), subadult male. Collector Richard Schomburgk, 1863. Specimen from the syntype series of T. lineata [20].
Paratypes. ZMB 7414, same data as holotype, adult female. NMV D53031, Big Desert, 2.75 km NNW of Chinaman Well, Victoria, 35°51’2400 S, 141°39’1000 S, adult female; D57507, 14 km W of Hattah, Victoria, 34°46’ S, 142°06’ E, immature male; D59670, 14 km W of Hattah, Victoria, 34°46’ S, 142°06’ E, adult male; D74164, Lake Tyrell, Victoria, 35°20’ S, 142°50’ E, adult female; D74168, Lake Tyrell, Victoria, 35°20’ S, 142°50’E, adult male; SAMA R31159, ruins at Thompsons Beach Road, South Australia, 34°29’S, 138°19’E, adult male; SAMA R42648, Ngaut Ngaut Conservation Park, South Australia, 34°42’S, 139°370 E, subadult male; R53024, Deep Swamp, 5.1 km WSW of Alaman H/S, South Australia, 36°44’3500 S, 140°16’2500 E, adult male; R54592, 8 km N of Blanchetown, South Australia, 34°1500 S, 139°3600E, adult female; R58429, 6.6km ENE Tungketta Hill, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, 33°43’1600 S, 135°7’3700 E, adult female; R58576, 5.1 km SSE Horne Lookout, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, 33°43’4100 S, 135°21’4900 E, adult male; R61557 4.6 km NE Walkers Rock, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, 33°31’2300 S, 134°53’1400 E, adult male. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of Tympanocryptis with rostral scale continuous, or almost so, with the canthus rostralis, nasal scale below the canthus and not bordered below by enlarged scales, well-developed lateral neck fold, keeled dorsal head scales, usually a well-developed five-lined colour pattern in which the dorsolateral lines are equal to or broader than the vertebral line, no lateral skin fold, venter variable— immaculate to weakly to moderate brown flecks on throat (Melville et al. 2019).


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CommentDistribution: see map in Melville et al. 2019: 6 (Fig. 1: species A) 
EtymologyNamed for Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters, pioneering German herpetologist and Director of the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin from 1857 until his death in 1883. Peters coined the name Tympanocryptis and described its type species, T. lineata, based mainly on specimens from the Adelaide area. 
References
  • Melville J, Chaplin K, Hipsley CA, Sarre SD, Sumner J, Hutchinson M. 2019. Integrating phylogeography and high-resolution X-ray CT reveals five new cryptic species and multiple hybrid zones among Australian earless dragons. R. Soc. open sci. 6: 191166 - get paper here
 
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