REPRODUCTION AND SEXUAL DICHROMATISM IN Sitana ponticeriana (REPTILIA: DRACONINAE: AGAMIDAE)
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Two new species of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Sri Lanka, including a taxonomic revision of the Indian Sitana species.
The genus Sitana was described by Cuvier (1829) on the basis of a single species, S. ponticeriana. The secondly described, Sitana minor Günther, 1864, is identical to S. ponticeriana Cuvier, 1829, and should be considered as a junior objective synonym of the latter. The syntypes of S. deccanensis Jerdon, 1870 have been rediscovered, misplaced among the syntypes of S. minor (sensu Boulenger 1885...
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عنوان ژورنال: Taprobanica
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1800-427X,1800-427X
DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v3i1.41