Physignathus cocincinus CUVIER, 1829

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Chinese Water Dragon, Green Water Dragon, Thai Water Dragon, Asian water dragon G: Grüne Wasseragame
Synonym	Physignathus cocincinus CUVIER 1829: 41 (pl. 16) (?) Physignathus cochinchinensis GUÉRIN 1829 (nom. emend.) (?) Lophura concinna GRAY 1831 Lophura cuvieri GRAY 1831 (fide BOULENGER 1885) Istiurus Cochinsinensis — CUVIER 1837: plate 18 Istiurus physignathus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 387 (nom. subst.) Dilophyrus mentager GÜNTHER 1861: 188 (fide SMITH 1935) Dilophyrus mentager GÜNTHER 1861: 267 Physignathus cochinchinensis — BOULENGER 1885: 399 Physignathus mentager — BOULENGER 1885: 400 Physignathus cocincinus caudicinctus BARBOUR 1912 : 192 Physignathus cocincinus mentager - BARBOUR 1912 Physignathus cocincinus — SMITH 1935: 236 Physignathus cocincinus — TAYLOR 1963: 911 Physignatus cocincinus (sic) — WERNING 1993 Physignathus cocincinus — COX et al. 1998: 104 Physignathus cocincinus — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 92 Physignathus cocincinus — ZIEGLER 2002: 182
Distribution	E/SE Thailand, E Indochina, Vietnam, Birma ? (fide MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999) S China (Namgong), Cambodia Type locality: Cochinchine (= South Vietnam). Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and not in every cases it works well. We are working on it.
Types	Holotype: MNHN, BMNH fide BOULENGER 1885. Paratype: ZMB 5678, "Chartaboum, Siam", leg. M. Mouhot, gek. von Gerrard [mentager]
Comment	Type species: Physignathus cocincinus CUVIER 1829 is the type species of the genus Physignathus CUVIER 1829. The genus Physignathus is not monophyletic (TOWNSEND et al. 2011), which is why lesueurii has been assigned to various other genera. Spelling: The original spelling in Cuvier 1829: 41 was “Phyhignat,us cocincinus” (including the typos and the comma) although the section heading was “Les Physignathes”, hence it is assumed that the species name was a (pretty serious) typo. Karyotype: 2n=26, fundamental number (NF) = 48 in both males and females. 5 metacentric pairs and one submetacentric pair of macrochromosomes, 12 pairs of apparent microchromosomes. No apparent sex chromosomes (Patawang et al. 2015).
Etymology	The name given by CUVIER tried to latinize “Cochin China” which was the reason for GUÉRIN’s unjustified emendation to “cochinchinensis”. “Cochin China” is a name used by the French for the southernmost part of Vietnam.
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