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Green Fan-throated lizard

Ptyctolaemus gularis (Peters, 1864)

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.

Green fan-throated lizard (Ptyctolaemus gularis)

Green fan-throated lizard (Ptyctolaemus gularis)

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Open encyclopedia reference

The green fan-throated lizard (Ptyctolaemus gularis) is a species of agamid lizard found in Bangladesh, China (Tibet), India (Northeast- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tripura, Khasi Hills, Mizoram) and Myanmar (Kachin, Chin), and possibly in Bhutan. The type locality, "Calcutta", is in error fide Zhao & Adler 1993; Ananjeva & Stuart (2001) give it as Margherita, in Patkai Mountains, Upper Assam.

Ptyctolaemus gularis is the type species of the genus Ptyctolaemus.

Wikipedia contributors, Ptyctolaemus gularis; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T11:21:54.838070+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Ptyctolaemus gularis (Peters, 1864)
Name authority
(Peters, 1864)
Common name
Green Fan-throated lizard
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Reptilia
Order
Squamata
Family
Agamidae
Genus
Ptyctolaemus
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.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
  9. orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
  10. suborderIguania
  11. familyAgamidae
  12. subfamilyDraconinae
  13. genusPtyctolaemus
  14. speciesPtyctolaemus gularis (Peters, 1864)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Ptyctolaemus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Ptyctolaemus collicristatus Schulte & Vindum, 2004AgamidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Ptyctolaemus chindwinensis Liu, Hou, Lwin & Rao, 2021AgamidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Tongbiguan fan‐throated lizard”Ptyctolaemus tongbiguanensis Liu, Zhu, Hou, Duan, Zuo, Yin & Rao, 2026AgamidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Ptyctolaemus kachinensis Deepak, 2026AgamidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

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Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Otocryptis (Ptyctolaemus) gularis Peters, 1864 Peters, 1864synonym

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

NE India (Assam; Khasi hills; Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland), Bangladesh, Bhutan,

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.

  1. https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Ptyctolaemus&species=gularis 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.

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:4QBC5. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.