Sitana schleichi

Sitana schleichi
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Genus:	Sitana
Species:	S. schleichi
Binomial name
Sitana schleichi Anders & Kästle, 2002 [2]

Sitana schleichi, the Suklaphantah sitana, is a species of agamid lizard endemic to Nepal. ^[2]

Etymology

The species is named in honor of German herpetologist Hans Hermann Schleich (born 1952). ^[3]

References

1. Bhattarai, S.; Limbu, K.P.; Hasan, M.K.; Das, A. (2022) [amended version of 2021 assessment]. "Sitana schleichi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022 e.T127902046A219116580. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T127902046A219116580.en . Retrieved 10 June 2024.
2. Sitana schleichi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
3. 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. (Sitana schleichi, p. 235).

Other references

• Schleich, Hans Hermann; Kästle, Werner (1998). "Sitana fusca spec. nov., a further species from the Sitana sivalensis-complex". Contributions to the herpetology of south-Asia (Nepal, India). Wuppertal: Fuhlrott-Museum. pp. 207–226.
• Anders C, Kästle W (2002). In: Schleich HH, Kästle W (editors) (2002). Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag Kommanditgesellsch. 1,200 pp. ISBN   978-3904144797. (Sitana schleichi, new species).
• Kelaart, Edward Frederick (1854). "Catalogue of reptiles collected in Ceylon". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 13: 137–140.

External links

• Sitana schleichi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database