Diploderma brevicauda

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 Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Acrodonta

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Draconinae
Genus: Diploderma
Species: Diploderma brevicauda

Name

Diploderma brevicauda (Manthey, Denzer, Hou & Wang, 2012)

• Holotype: AMNH 19879, ♂, collected by R.C. Andrews and Edmund Heller in November 1916.
• Type locality: “Snow Mt. Village, 2740 m. (ca. 27°05’N, 100°11’E), 19 km north of Lijiang, Northwestern Yunnan, China”.
• Etymology: The name brevicauda (Lat. brevis = short, cauda = tail) means short-tailed reflecting this morphological feature of the new species.

Combinations

• Japalura brevicauda Manthey, Denzer, Hou & Wang, 2012: 29 [original combination]
• Diploderma brevicauda — Wang, Che, Lin, Deepak, Aniruddha, Jiang, Jin, Chen & Siler, 2018: 259 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Manthey, U. & Denzer, W., Hou, M. & Wang, X.-H. 2012. Discovered in historical collections: two new Japalura species (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yulong Snow Mountains, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan, PR China. Zootaxa 3200(1): 27–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3200.1.2 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. 

Links

• Rao, D.-Q. 2025. IUCN: Diploderma brevicauda  (Least Concern) (amended version of 2019 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T104665951A284559798. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T104665951A284559798.en. Accessed on 01 September 2026.