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Hypsilurus hikidanus

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Allison, A. |author-link=species:Allen Allison |author2=Oliver, P. |author2-link=species:Paul M. Oliver |author3=Tallowin, O. |author3-link=species:Oliver J.S. Tallowin |date=2015 |title=Hypsilurus hikidanus |volume=2015 |page=e.T22528897A22528901 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T22528897A22528901.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Hypsilurus

| species = hikidanus

| authority = Manthey & Denzer, 2006

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Hypsilurus hikidanus is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to the island of New Guinea.

Etymology

The specific name, hikidanus, is in honor of Japanese herpetologist Tsutomu Hikida.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Hypsilurus hikidanus, p. 123).

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of H. hikidanus is forest.

Description

H. hikidanus is medium-sized for its genus and has a very long tail. Males may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about {{cvt|16|cm|in}}, and females are about 25% shorter in SVL. The tail is about three times SVL.

Reproduction

H. hikidanus is oviparous.

References

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Further reading

  • Manthey, Ulrich; Denzer, Wolfgang (2006). "A revision of the Melanesian-Australian angle head lizards of the geus Hypsilurus (Sauria: Agamidae: Amphibolurinae), with description of four new species and one new subspecies". Hamadryad 30 (1 & 2): 1–40. (Hypsilurus hikidanus, new species, pp. 28–29, Figure 26).
  • Manthey, Ulrich; Denzer, Wolfgang (2016). "Melanesische Winkelkopfagamen der Gattung Hypilurus Wilhelm Peters, 1867 – Teil 1. Arten von Neuguinea [= Melanesian anglehead lizards of the genus Hypsilurus Peters, 1867 – Part 1. Species from New Guinea]". Sauria 38 (3): 11–36. (Hypsilurus hikidanus, pp. 18–19, Figures 13–14). (in German).

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Category:Hypsilurus

Category:Reptiles described in 2006

Category:Taxa named by Ulrich Manthey

Category:Taxa named by Wolfgang Denzer

Category:Agamid lizards of New Guinea

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