Japalura is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. Species of Japalura are native to Pakistan, India, China, and Myanmar. Many species have been moved to the genus Diploderma.
Thomas Nelson Annandale CIE FRSE was a British zoologist, entomologist, anthropologist, and herpetologist. He was the founding director of the Zoological Survey of India.
Japalura andersoniana, Anderson's mountain lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to southern Asia.
Japalura major is an agamid lizard found in northern India and Nepal. It lives at elevations up to 2,600 metres (8,500 ft).
Japalura tricarinata is a species of agamid lizard endemic to Asia.
The variegated mountain lizard or Himalayan dragon is an agamid lizard found in northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal.
Japalura austeniana, also known commonly as the Abor Hills agama or Annandale's dragon, is a rare species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Asia.
Lawder's bent-toed gecko is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to northern India. Its type locality is "Kumaon", restricted to Almora by Malcolm Arthur Smith. It is named after Mr. A. Lawder who collected the holotype. His identity is not known for sure, but he is likely to have been A.W. Lawder who was a member of the Geological Society of London, as was Ferdinand Stoliczka who described the species. It is sometimes placed in the genus Cyrtopodion.
Utricularia kumaonensis is a small annual carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is native to Bhutan, northern Burma, the Yunnan province of China, India, and Nepal. U. kumaonensis grows as a lithophyte, epiphyte, or terrestrial plant on mossy rocks or in bog grasslands at altitudes from 2,250 m (7,382 ft) to 4,200 m (13,780 ft). It was originally described by Daniel Oliver in 1859, although Peter Taylor asserted in his 1989 monograph that Michael Pakenham Edgeworth's 1847 description of Diurospermum album is U. kumaonensis. It is very similar to U. multicaulis.
The Kumaon snowtrout is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Schizothorax.
Iris kemaonensis, the Kumaon iris, is a plant species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Iris and in the section Pseudoregelia. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from Tibetan China, Bhutan, India, Kashmir and Nepal. It has light green or yellowish green leaves, that extend after flowering time. It has a short stem, 1–2 fragrant flowers that are purple, lilac, lilac-purple or pale purple. They also have darker coloured blotches or spots. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions. It is often known as Iris kumaonensis, due to a publishing error.
Diploderma polygonatum, also known as Ryukyu japalure and Okinawa tree lizard, is a species of lizard found in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. It is diurnal and arboreal. An adult male Diploderma polygonatum measures "61 mm. from snout to vent, and 152 mm. from vent to tip of tail; total length 213 mm." The splenial of this lizard is short, as is that of Trapelus agilis. The lizard is also closely related to Diploderma swinhonis.
Diploderma luei is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Taiwan.
Diploderma slowinskii is a species of lizard, which was first identified in the Yunnan province of China in 2017. The lizard is named after American herpetologist, Joseph Bruno Slowinski.
Japalura dasi, also known as the Agaupani mountain lizard or Agaupani forest agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. It is listed as data deficient by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Diploderma vela, also known as sail mountain lizard or sail japalura, is a species of lizard endemic to China. It can be found in Tibet and Yunnan at elevations of 2370 meters.
Ota's mountain lizard is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to Southern Asia.
Diploderma zhaoermii is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Sichuan, China.
Cristidorsa is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae native to India and Myanmar. The name Cristidorsa is Latin for "ridged dorsum", in reference to the ridges on the backs of lizards in this genus. The common name ridged dragons was suggested by the authors of the 2018 genus description. The species were originally placed in the genus Japalura.
