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''Japalura'' is a
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of
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s in the
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.
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of ''Japalura'' are native to Pakistan, India, China, and Myanmar. Many species have been moved to the genus '' Diploderma''.


Species

The following eight species are recognized as being valid: ''
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'': a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Japalura''.


References


Further reading

* Gray JE (1853). "Descriptions of some undescribed species of Reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya". ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series'' 12: 386-392. (''Japalura'', new genus, pp. 387–388). Japalura Lizard genera Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{Agamidae-stub