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

agamid Agamidae is a family of over 300 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Overview Phylogenetically, they may be sister to th ...

lizard Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia al ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found 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 found els ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

Etymology

The species is named in honor of German

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning " reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and r ...

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(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