Harpesaurus
{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
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{{Automatic Taxobox
| name = Harpesaurus
| taxon = Harpesaurus
| image = Harpesaurus modiglianii – Baliani, 1933.png
| authority = Boulenger, 1885"Harpesaurus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Iguania/agamidae.
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Harpesaurus is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Indonesia.
Each of the 6 species are known from at most only a few specimens.{{Cite journal |last=Ineich |first=Ivan |last2=Kopetsch |first2=Thore |last3=Böhme |first3=Wolfgang |date=May 2022 |title=Pinocchio lizards and other lizards bearing rostral appendages − the peculiar habitus of the draconine agamid Harpesaurus tricinctus with highlights on its ecological implications and convergence with its New World equivalent, the dactyloid Anolis proboscis |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360622992_Pinocchio_lizards_and_other_lizards_bearing_rostral_appendages_-_the_peculiar_habitus_of_the_draconine_agamid_Harpesaurus_tricinctus_with_highlights_on_its_ecological_implications_and_convergence_with |journal=Salamandra |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=123-136 |via=ResearchGate}}{{Cite journal |last=Putra |first=Chairunas A. |last2=Amarasinghe |first2=A.A. Thasun |last3=Research Center for Climate Change, Multidisciplinary Lab, FMIPA Building, 7th Floor, Kampus UI, University of Indonesia, Depok 16424, Indonesia |last4=Hikmatullah |first4=Desy |last5=Scali |first5=Stefano |last6=Brinkman |first6=JanJaap |last7=Manthey |first7=Ulrich |last8=Ineich |first8=Ivan |date=2020-05-21 |title=REDISCOVERY OF MODIGLIANI’S NOSE-HORNED LIZARD, Harpesaurus modiglianii VINCIGUERRA, 1933 (REPTILIA : AGAMIDAE) AFTER 129 YEARS WITHOUT ANY OBSERVATION |url=http://www.taprobanica.org/Archives/Volume-9-14-2020-26/Volume-9-Number-1-May-2020/v9i1216.html |journal=Taprobanica |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=3–11 |doi=10.47605/tapro.v9i1.216|doi-access=free }}
Geographic range
Species of the genus Harpesaurus are found on the Greater Sunda Islands.
Habitat
Species
Six species are recognized as being valid.{{EMBL genus|genus=Harpesaurus}}. www.reptile-database.org.
The species formerly known as H. thescelorhinos {{small|King, 1978}} is a synonym of H. borneensis.
The Sumatran species H. modiglianii was previously known only from the type specimen, collected in 1891, but was found again in 2018.
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Harpesaurus.
References
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Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Harpesaurus, new genus, p. 279).
External links
- Rochmyaningih, Dyna (2020). [https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nose-horned-dragon-lizard-lost-science-found "A nose-horned dragon lizard lost to science for over 100 years has been found"]. Science News, June 9, 2020.
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