Diploderma grahami explained

Diploderma grahami, also known commonly as Graham's japalure, is species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to China.

Etymology

The specific name, grahami, is in honor of American Christian missionary, the Rev. Dr. David Crockett Graham, who collected natural history specimens in China.^[1]

Geographic range

D. grahami is found in the Chinese province of Sichuan.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of D. grahami is forest.

Reproduction

D. grahami is oviparous.

Further reading

• Inger RF (1960). "A Review of the Agamid Lizards of the Genus Phoxophrys Hubrecht". Copeia 1960 (3): 221–225. (Japalura grahami, new combination, p. 221).
• Pope CH (1935). The Reptiles of China: Turtles, Crocodilians, Snakes, Lizards. (Volume X of the Natural History of Central Asia series, Edited by Chester A. Reeds). New York: American Museum of Natural History. lii + 640 pp., 28 figures, Plates I–XXVII. (Phoxophrys grahami, p. 465).
• Stejneger L (1924). "Herpetological novelties from China". Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 5: 119–121. (Phoxophrys grahami, new species, p. 120).
• Wang K, Che J, Lin S, Deepak V, Datta-Roy A, Jiang K, Jin J, Chen H, Siler CD (2018). "Multilocus phylogeny and revised classification for mountain dragons of the genus Japalura s.l. (Reptilia: Agamidae: Draconinae) from Asia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 (1): 246–267. (Diploderma grahami, new combination, p. 259).

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]