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Greater forest agama
Japalura major (Jerdon, 1870)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Japalura major (Jerdon, 1870)
- Name authority
- (Jerdon, 1870)
- Common name
- Greater forest agama
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Agamidae
- Genus
- Japalura
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
- orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
- suborderIguania
- familyAgamidae
- subfamilyDraconinae
- genusJapalura
- speciesJapalura major (Jerdon, 1870)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Japalura. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Burmese JapalureJapalura sagittifera Smith, 1940 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himalayan DragonJapalura variegata Gray, 1853 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japalura mictophola Mirza, Gowande, Thackeray, Bhosale, Sawant, Phansalkar & Patel, 2024 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anderson's Mountain lizardJapalura andersoniana Annandale, 1905 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Agaupani forest agamaJapalura dasi (Shah & Kästle, 2002) | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kumaon Mountain LizardJapalura kumaonensis (Annandale, 1907) | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Three Keeled Mountain LizardJapalura tricarinata (Blyth, 1853) | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Oreocalotes major Jerdon, 1870 Jerdon, 1870 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Japalura&species=major Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3QLQB. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.