Species Diporiphora margaretae Storr, 1974

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diporiphora bilineata margaretae Storr, G.M. 1974. Agamid lizards of the genera Caimanops, Physignathus and Diporiphora in Western Australia and Northern Territory. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 121-146 [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R27648, Kalumburu, Western Australia [14°18'S, 126°30'E].
  Paratype(s) WAM 10 specs (R13600, R28194, R28223, R41869, R42942, R43865, R43881, R43882, R43883, R43960.); SAMA 27 specs (R2848, R13483A–Z); AMS 3 specs (R43881–83); FMNH R13600.

  Type locality references:

  Ellis, R.J. 2019. An annotated type catalogue of the dragon lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 34: 115–132.

 

Generic Combinations

• Diporiphora margaretae Storr, 1974. —
  Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [119]

 

Introduction

Described as a subspecies of D. bilineata but then synonymised with D. magna by Storr et al. (1983) without comment. Molecular analysis by Smith et al. (2011) demonstrated the distinctiveness of the species relative to D. bilineata and D. magna, see Melville et al. (2019) for further details.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Kimberley region from Sir Graham Moore Island south to Prince Regent River and east to Drysdale River National Park.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK)

General References

Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [119]

Melville, J., Date, K.S., Horner, P. & Doughty, P. 2019. Taxonomic revision of dragon lizards in the genus Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) from the Australian monsoonal tropics. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 78: 23-55 [46]

 

Common Name References

Melville, J., Date, K.S., Horner, P. & Doughty, P. 2019. Taxonomic revision of dragon lizards in the genus Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) from the Australian monsoonal tropics. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 78: 23-55 [45] (Northwest Kimberley Two-lined Dragon)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	AGAMIDAE	21-Jun-2021	MODIFIED
	Diporiphora Gray, 1842	11-Oct-2020	ADDED