Cristidorsa planidorsata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acrodonta

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Acrodonta

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Draconinae
Genus: Cristidorsa
Species: Cristidorsa planidorsata

Name

• Cristidorsa planidorsata (Jerdon, 1870)

Syntypes (2): BMNH 1946.8.30.86–87 (formerly 70.11.29.20–21), ♂ and ♀, presented by T. Jerdon.

Type locality: “Khasi Hills”, Meghalaya, India.

Combinations

• Japalura planidorsata Jerdon, 1870: 76 [original combination]
• Cristidorsa planidorsata — Wang, Che, Lin, Deepak, Datta-Roy, Jiang, Jin, Chen & Siler, 2019: 258 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Jerdon, T.C. 1870. Notes on Indian Herpetology. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1870: 66–85. BHL Reference page. 
• Wang, K., Che, J., Lin, S.-M., Deepak, V., Datta-Roy, A., Jiang, K., Jin, J.-Q., Chen, H.-M. & Siler, C.D. 2019. Multilocus phylogeny and revised classification for mountain dragons of the genus Japalura s.l. (Reptilia: Agamidae: Draconinae) from Asia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(1): 246–267. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly034 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Denzer, W., Manthey, U. & Campbell, P.D. 2019. Catalogue of type specimens of the agamid lizard genus Japalura s. l. (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae). Zootaxa 4612(1): 109–125. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.1.8. Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Cristidorsa planidorsata. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 February 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Smooth-Scaled Mountain Lizard