Diploderma polygonatum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Agamidae |
Genus: | Diploderma |
Species: | D. polygonatum
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Binomial name | |
Diploderma polygonatum (
Hallowell, 1861)
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Synonyms | |
Japalura polygonata Hallowell, 1861 |
Diploderma polygonatum, also known as Ryukyu japalure and Okinawa tree lizard, is a species of lizard found in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. [1] [2] It is diurnal and arboreal. [3] An adult male Diploderma polygonatum measures "61 mm. from snout to vent, and 152 mm. from vent to tip of tail; total length 213 mm." [4] The splenial of this lizard is short, as is that of Trapelus agilis. [5] The lizard is also closely related to Diploderma swinhonis.
Three subspecies are recognized (Ota 1991): Japalura polygonata polygonata (greatest part of Ryukyu Islands); J. p. ishigakiensis Van Denburgh, 1912 (Yaeyama group, southern Ryukyu Islands); J. p. xanthostoma Ota, 1991 (lowlands of ...
Some of them are diurnally arboreal species such as Japalura polygonata xanthostoma (H. Lin, unpubl. obs.).
The splenial is generally reduced (e.g., Japalura polygonata, Trapelus agilis), absent, or fused (Moody, 1980), but remains long in the Cretaceous genus Mimeosaurus (Gao and Hou, 1995).
Diploderma polygonatum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Agamidae |
Genus: | Diploderma |
Species: | D. polygonatum
|
Binomial name | |
Diploderma polygonatum (
Hallowell, 1861)
| |
Synonyms | |
Japalura polygonata Hallowell, 1861 |
Diploderma polygonatum, also known as Ryukyu japalure and Okinawa tree lizard, is a species of lizard found in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. [1] [2] It is diurnal and arboreal. [3] An adult male Diploderma polygonatum measures "61 mm. from snout to vent, and 152 mm. from vent to tip of tail; total length 213 mm." [4] The splenial of this lizard is short, as is that of Trapelus agilis. [5] The lizard is also closely related to Diploderma swinhonis.
Three subspecies are recognized (Ota 1991): Japalura polygonata polygonata (greatest part of Ryukyu Islands); J. p. ishigakiensis Van Denburgh, 1912 (Yaeyama group, southern Ryukyu Islands); J. p. xanthostoma Ota, 1991 (lowlands of ...
Some of them are diurnally arboreal species such as Japalura polygonata xanthostoma (H. Lin, unpubl. obs.).
The splenial is generally reduced (e.g., Japalura polygonata, Trapelus agilis), absent, or fused (Moody, 1980), but remains long in the Cretaceous genus Mimeosaurus (Gao and Hou, 1995).