Ota's mountain lizard

Ota's mountain lizard
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Genus:	Cristidorsa
Species:	C. otai
Binomial name
	Cristidorsa otai; (S. Mahony, 2009)
Synonyms
	Japalura otai ; S. Mahony, 2009; Cristidorsa otai ; — K. Wang et al., 2018;

Ota's mountain lizard (Cristidorsa otai) is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to Southern Asia.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, otai, is in honor of Japanese herpetologist Hidetoshi Ota (born 1959).^[1]^[3]

C. otai is endemic to Mizoram state in northeastern India.^[4]

Adult males of C. otai are 46.4 mm (1.83 in) snout-to-vent length (SVL). Females are larger, at 52.2–58.7 mm (2.06–2.31 in) SVL.^[5]

^ ^a ^b "Cristidorsa otai ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
^ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Japalura otai". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Japalura otai, p. 197).
^ "Japalura otai Mahony, 2009". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
^ "Japalura otai ". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2018-10-29.

Mahony, Stephen (2009). "A new species of Japalura (Reptilia: Agamidae) from northeast India with a discussion of the similar species Japalura sagittifera Smith, 1940 and Japalura planidorsata Jerdon, 1870". Zootaxa 2212: 41–61. (Japalura otai, new species).
Wang, Kai; Che, Jing; Lin, Simin; Deepak, V; Aniruddha, Datta-Roy; Jiang, Ke; Jin, Jieqiong; Chen, Hongman; Siler, Cameron D. (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. (Cristidorsa, new genus; Cristidorsa otai, new combination).

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