Microauris aurantolabium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acrodonta
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Acrodonta

Microauris aurantolabium (Krishnan, 2008)

Holotype: BNHM 1436, adult ♀, collected by N.M. Ishwar in 1997.
Type locality: “Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Tamil Nadu, India”.
Etymology: Name derived from the Neo-Latin aurantium, meaning golden, and the Latin labium, meaning lip, in reference to the orange upper lip.

Calotes aurantolabium Krishnan, 2008: 531 [original combination]
Microauris aurantolabium — Pal, Vijayakumar, Shanker, Jayarajan & Deepak, 2018: 440 [subsequent combination]

Krishnan, S. 2008. New Species of Calotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from the Southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Herpetology 42(3): 530–535. DOI: 10.1670/06-198.1 Reference page.
Pal, S., Vijayakumar, S.P., Shanker, K., Jayarajan, A. & Deepak, V. 2018. A systematic revision of Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Western Ghats adds two genera and reveals two new species. Zootaxa 4482(3): 401–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.3.1. Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Microauris aurantolabium. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 November 2019.
Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B., Vijayakumar, S.P., Ganesan, S.R. & Prabhu, M. 2013. IUCN: Microauris aurantolabium (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172675A1364818. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172675A1364818.en