Japalura

Japalura is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. Species of Japalura are native to Pakistan, India, China, and Myanmar.<ref name=kunte>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=mah>Template:Cite journal</ref> Many species have been moved to the genus Diploderma.

Species

The following eight species are recognized as being valid:<ref name=RDB/>

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Japalura andersoniana Template:Small	Anderson's mountain lizard	southwestern China
	Japalura austeniana Template:Small	Abor Hills agama	Bhutan and India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh).
	Japalura dasi Template:Small	Agaupani mountain lizard, Agaupani forest agama	Nepal.
	Japalura kumaonensis Template:Small	Kumaon mountain lizard, Kumaon forest agama	northern India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Tibet (China)
	Japalura major Template:Small	large mountain lizard, greater forest agama	northern India and Nepal.
	Japalura sagittifera Template:Small	Burmese japalure	Myanmar.
	Japalura tricarinata Template:Small	three-keeled mountain lizard, tricarinate forest agama	India, Nepal, and Tibet (China)
	Japalura variegata Template:Small	variegated mountain lizard, Himalayan dragon	northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Nota bene: a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Japalura.

Further reading

• Gray JE (1853). "Descriptions of some undescribed species of Reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 12: 386-392. (Japalura, new genus, pp. 387–388).