Suborder Iguania Phylum Chordata Rank Genus | Subphylum Vertebrata Family Agamidae Scientific name Tympanocryptis Higher classification Agaminae Order Scaled reptiles | |
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Similar Tympanocryptis tetraporophora, Reptile, Agamidae, Ctenophorus, Diporiphora | ||
Tympanocryptis tetraporophora
Description
The genus Tympanocryptis has the following characters. The tympanum is hidden. The body is depressed, and it is covered dorsally with heterogeneous scales. There is no dorsal crest. There is no gular sac, but a strong transverse gular fold is present. The tail is round in cross section. There is a preanal pore on each side, which sometimes is absent in females. In most species there are no femoral pores, Tympanocryptis tetraporophora being an exception.
Species
The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.
Conservation efforts for T. pinguicolla
In early January 2014, media reported that researchers Professor Stephen Sarre and Dr Lisa Doucette from the University of Canberra's Institute for Applied Ecology had succeeded in breeding T. pinguicolla in captivity, and had also hatched eggs gathered from field studies, with around 60 hatchlings being born. In June 2011, Professor Sarre's team won a four-year funding grant from the Australian Research Council to research and potentially save the species from extinction, and find a cause for the species recent collapse in numbers, thought to be associated with 10 years of drought in the species' range.
