''Sitana schleichi'', the Suklaphantah sitana, is a species of

agamid Agamidae is a family containing 582 species in 64 genera of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few locations in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Overview Phylogenetically, ...

lizard Lizard is the common name used for all Squamata, squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most Island#Oceanic isla ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

Etymology

The species is named in honor of German

herpetologist Herpetology (from Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (Gymnophiona)) and reptiles (in ...

Hans Hermann Schleich (born 1952).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Sitana schleichi'', p. 235).

References

Other references

*Schleich, Hans Hermann; Kästle, Werner (1998). "''Sitana fusca spec. nov.'', a further species from the ''Sitana sivalensis''-complex". ''Contributions to the herpetology of south-Asia (Nepal, India)''. Wuppertal: Fuhlrott-Museum. pp. 207–226. *Anders C, Kästle W (2002). ''In'': Schleich HH, Kästle W (editors) (2002). ''Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal''. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag Kommanditgesellsch. 1,200 pp. . (''Sitana schleichi'', new species). * Kelaart, Edward Frederick (1854). "Catalogue of reptiles collected in Ceylon". ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.'' (2) 13: 137–140.

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q3022533 Sitana Endemic fauna of Nepal Reptiles of Nepal Reptiles described in 2002