#monilesaurus

Woah - here's something very special! A whole new genus of #agamid #lizards from the Western Ghats of #India! With this new Monilesaurus genus come two #newspecies! These lizards are so beautiful, we'll give them a post each in a double-bill tweet: here's M. acanthocephalus

Dear all, I report on yet another case of taxonomic vandalism by the Wuster gang in one of their PRINO journals. The gang have coined yet two more junior synonyms of established names for genera named by Hoser in 2014 in their online blog journal called Zootaxa. Monilesaurus Pal et al. 2018 is an illegal junior synonym of Skrijelus Hoser, 2014. Microauris Pal et al. 2018 is an illegal junior synonym of Tamilnaducalotes Hoser, 2014. It goes without saying that the correct ICZN names are the 2014 names of Hoser (2014) and the other more recently coined names should be trashed into the synonyms bin along with the other several dozen odd coined Wuster gang names. The original 2014 descriptions of the said genera can be found in the major monograph here: Hoser, R. T. 2014. A logical new taxonomy for the Asian subfamily Draconinae based on obvious phylogenetic relationships and morphology of species (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 22:9-59. http://www.smuggled.com/AJH-I22-Split.htm Thank you. Snakeman