Harpesaurus

Harpesaurus is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Indonesia.^[2]

Geographic range[]

Species of the genus Harpesaurus are found on some islands in Indonesia.^[2]

The natural habitat of lizards of the genus Harpesaurus is forests.^{[citation needed]}

Six species are recognized as being valid.^[2]

The species formerly known as H. thescelorhinos , 1978 is a synonym of H. borneensis.

The Sumatran species H. modiglianii was previously known only from the type specimen, collected in 1891, but was found again in 2018.^[3]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Harpesaurus.

The specific names, beccarii and modiglianii, are in honor of Italian botanists Odoardo Beccari and Elio Modigliani, respectively.^[4]

^ "Harpesaurus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Iguania/agamidae.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Genus Harpesaurus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Putra, C.A.; Amarasinghe, A.A.T.; Hikmatullah, D.; Scali, S.; Brinkman, J.; Manthey, U.; Ineich, I. (May 2020). "Rediscovery of Modigliani's Nose-horned Lizard, Harpesaurus modiglianii Vinciguerra, 1933 (Reptilia: Agamidae) After 129 Years Without Any Observation" (PDF). Taprobanica. 9 (1): 3–11. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
^ 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. (Harpesaurus beccarii, p. 21; H. modiglianii, p. 181).