Harpesaurus

Harpesaurus is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Indonesia.[2]

Harpesaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Subfamily: Draconinae
Genus: Harpesaurus
Boulenger, 1885[1]

Geographic range

Species of the genus Harpesaurus are found on some islands in Indonesia.[2]

Habitat

The natural habitat of lizards of the genus Harpesaurus is forests.

Species

Six species are recognized as being valid.[2]

The species formerly known as H. thescelorhinos 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.[3]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Harpesaurus.

Etymology

The specific names, beccarii and modiglianii, are in honor of Italian botanists Odoardo Beccari and Elio Modigliani, respectively.[4]

References
  1. "Harpesaurus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Iguania/agamidae.
  2. Genus Harpesaurus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Putra, C.A.; Amarasinghe, A.A.T.; Hikmatullah, D.; Scali, S.; Brinkman, J.; Manthey, U.; Ineich, I. (May 2020). "Rediscovery of Modigliani's Nose-horned Lizard, Harpesaurus modiglianii Vinciguerra, 1933 (Reptilia: Agamidae) After 129 Years Without Any Observation" (PDF). Taprobanica. 9 (1): 3–11. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  4. 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. (Harpesaurus beccarii, p. 21; H. modiglianii, p. 181).

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).
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