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Draco volans Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.

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Draco volans [spec. nov.]

Draco. Syst. nat. 36. Gron. mus. 2. p. 73. n. 46.

Mus. Ad. Fr. 1. p. 40. Draco.

Amoen. acad. 1. p. 126. Lacerta cauda tereti, pedibus pentadactylis, alis femore connexis, crista gulae triplici.

Bont. jav. 57. t. 57. Lacertus volans s. Dracunculus.

Seb. mus. 2. t. 86. f. 3. Lacerta africana volans s. Draco volans.

Testudinibus Pedum digiti antici 5, postici 4, totidem unguibus, exceptis marinis pinniformibus pedibus. Scuta testae numero saepius conveniunt, unde diagnosis Specierum difficillima.

Dracones omnes reliqui authorum fabulosi sunt, ut HYDRA, Seb. mus. 1. t. 104. {?X} f. 1.{?X} Hamburgi a nobis visa, non naturae, sed artis opus eximium.

Bradl. natur. t. 9. f. 5. Lacerta volans.

Habitat in India, Africa.

Notes

Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 199-200, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Agamidae
Genus
Draco
Species
volans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
spec. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Draco volans Linnaeus, 1758