Pseudocalotes austeniana

Pseudocalotes austeniana, commonly known as the Abor Hills agama[1] or Annandale's dragon,[2] is a rare species of agamid lizard endemic to Asia.

Pseudocalotes austeniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Pseudocalotes
Species:
P. austeniana
Binomial name
Pseudocalotes austeniana
(Annandale, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Salea austeniana Annandale, 1908
  • Mictopholis austeniana — M.A. Smith, 1935
  • Pseudocalotes austeniana — Mahony, 2010
  • Mictopholis austeniana — Lenz, 2012[1]

Etymology

The specific name, austeniana, is in honor of English topographer Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen.[2]

Geographic range

P. austeniana is found in Bhutan and India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh).[1]

Type locality: "Hills near Harmatti, Assam"[3] (= Dafla Hills, Assam, fide M.A. Smith 1935).[1]

Rediscovery

This species was previously known only from its holotype, but was rediscovered in 2006 at Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh.[4]

Notes
  1. "Pseudocalotes austeniana ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mictopholis austeniana, p. 13).
  3. Annandale N. 1908. Description of a new Species of Lizard of the Genus Salea from Assam. Rec. Indian Mus. 2: 37-38. (Salea austeniana, new species).
  4. Athreya R. 2006. Eaglenest Biodiversity Project − I (2003–2006): A report submitted to the Forest Department of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, India, and the Rufford-Maurice-Laing Foundation (UK). Kaati Trust, Pune. Conservation Resources for Eaglenest wildlife sanctuary, p. 54. Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading
  • Smith MA. 1935. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (Mictopholis, new genus, p. 149; Mictopholis austeniana, new combination, p. 165, Figure 50).


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