Acanthosaura armata ( Hardwicke & Gray, 1827 )

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 260

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968216

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Acanthosaura armata ( Hardwicke & Gray, 1827 )
status

 

Acanthosaura armata ( Hardwicke & Gray, 1827) View in CoL — Erroneous.

Peninsular Horned Tree Lizard

Singapore records.

Agama armata — Hardwicke & Gray, 1827: 216.

Acanthosaura armata — Gray, 1845: 240.— Ģnther, 1864: 148.—Theobald, 1876: 112.— Boulenger, 1885: 301.— Flower, 1896: 871.— Flower, 1899: 638.—Ridley, 1899: 206.—Taylor, 1963: 866.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 55.— Denzer & Manthey, 1991: 310.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 150.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.— Cox et al., 1998: 92.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 150.— N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 168.— Manthey, 2008: 19.— Das, 2010: 178.—Wood et al., 2010: 27, 38.—L.L. Grismer, 2011a: 93.—L.L. Grismer, 2011b: 110.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 168.—Chan-ard et al., 2015: 89.

Lophyrus armatus — Cantor, 1847a: 639.

Goniocephalus armatus armatus —Smith, 1935: 160.

Remarks. The type locality for A. armata is Singapore ( Hardwicke & Gray 1827) ( Table 1 View TABLE 1 ), based on two specimens from Hardwicke’s collection and one from Argent’s collection ( Gray 1845). Flower (1899) expressed doubts of A. armata occurring in Singapore citing ambiguity with the location of some of Hardwicke’s specimens and that no further specimens were reported. Lim & Chou (1990) and Baker & Lim (2008) followed Flower’s (1899) opinion and listed A. armata as doubtful in their checklists. In Peninsular Malaysia, A. armata occurs at the upper elevations of hilly and mountainous dipterocarp forest up to 810 m ( Grismer 2011a, b). However, in the Seribuat Archipelago, it can be found at all elevations ( Grismer 2011a). Given the uncertainty of the localities of the Hardwicke and Argent specimens, and its habitat requirements in Peninsular Malaysia, we classify A. armata as erroneous. Consequently, we suggest the type locality should be changed to Penang, Malaysia, where the subsequent specimens were collected by Cantor (Cantor 1847; Boulenger 1885).

LKCNHM & NHMUK MUSEUM SPECIMENS: Singapore (no locality): BMNH XXIV.20.c (no date), BMNH 1946.8.13.85 (no date), BMNH 1946.8.13.88 (no date).

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Agamidae

Genus

Acanthosaura

Loc

Acanthosaura armata ( Hardwicke & Gray, 1827 )

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023
2023
Loc

Goniocephalus armatus armatus

Smith 1935
1935
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