Genus Diporiphora Gray, 1842
- Diporiphora Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [53].
Type species:
Diporiphora bilineata Gray, 1842 by monotypy. - Diporophora Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [232, 250] [unjustified emendation of Diporiphora Gray, 1842].
- Gindalia Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [231, 246].
Type species:
Gindalia bennettii Gray, 1845 by monotypy. - Calotella Steindachner, F. 1867. Reptilien. pp. 1–98 in, Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorff-Urbair. Zoologie 1(3). Vienna : State Printer. [1869 on title page] [28].
Type species:
Calotella australis Steindachner, 1867 by monotypy. - Caimanops 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 [125].
Type species:
Diporophora amphiboluroides Lucas & Frost, 1902 by original designation. - Mantichorasaurus Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(3-4): 73-129 [1983 on title page] [81].
Type species:
Diporiphora albilabris albilabris Storr, 1974 by original designation. - Houstoniasaurus Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [17].
Type species:
Diporiphora winneckei Lucas & Frost, 1896 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [117]
- Doughty, P. Kealley, L. & Melville, J. 2012. Taxonomic assessment of Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) dragon lizards from the western arid zone of Australia. Zootaxa 3518: 1-24 (for Caimanops)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Southern New Guinea.
IBRA
Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Gulf Plains (GUP) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NT, SA, WA: Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Tanami (TAN) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII) ; SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL) ; WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)
General References
Doughty, P. Kealley, L. & Melville, J. 2012. Taxonomic assessment of Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) dragon lizards from the western arid zone of Australia. Zootaxa 3518: 1-24
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
Smith, K.L., Harmon, L.J., Shoo, L.P. & Melville, J. 2011. Evidence of constrained phenotypic evolution in a cryptic species complex of Agamid lizards. Evolution 65(4): 976–992
History of changes
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