Sitana
| Sitana | |
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| Sitana ponticeriana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Subfamily: | Draconinae |
| Genus: | Sitana |
Sitana is a genus of lizard, collectively known as the Fan-throated lizards, from the family Agamidae found in Nepal and India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The genus comprises six species with recently discovered two species from Sri Lanka.[1] A sister genus named Sarada was erected in 2016.[2]
Species
Listed alphabetically.[3]
- Sitana bahiri Amarasinghe, Ineich & Karunaratna, 2014
- Sitana devakai Amarasinghe, Ineich & Karunaratna, 2014
- Sitana fusca Schleich & Kästle, 1998
- Sitana ponticeriana Cuvier, 1829 – (Blue) Fan-throated Lizard
- Sitana schleichi Anders & Kästle, 2002
- Sitana sivalensis Schleich, Kästle & Shah, 1998; endemic to Nepal[4][5]
- Sitana visiri Deepak, 2016
- Sitana laticeps Deepak and Giri, 2016
- Sitana spinaecephalus Deepak, Vyas and Giri, 2016
References
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- ↑ Anole annals
- ↑ Deepak, V.; Giri, Varad B.; Asif, M.; Dutta, S.K.; Vyas, R.; Zambre, Amod M.; Bhosale, Harshal; Karanth, K. Praveen (2016). "Systematics and phylogeny of Sitana (Reptilia: Agamidae) of Peninsular India, with the description of one new genus and five new species". Contributions to Zoology 85 (1).
- ↑ Sitana, The Reptile Database
- ↑ Sitana sivalensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ↑ Schleich & Kästle, 1998: Sitana fusca spec. nov., a further species from the Sitana sivalensis- complex. Contributions to the herpetology of south-Asia (Nepal, India), Fuhlrott-Museum, Wuppertal, (p. 207-226).
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