| Apeltonotus sylvaticus POPE, 1929 Platyplacopus sylvaticus POPE, 1935 Takydromus (Platyplacopus) sylvaticus ARNOLD, 1997 |
Pope, C. (1928) - Description of Takydromus sylvaticus. - In: “Notes on reptiles from Fukien and other Chinese provinces”. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 58: 335-487.  Arnold, E.N. (1997) - Interrelationships and evolution of the east Asian grass lizards, Takydromus (Squamata: Lacertidae). - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119 (2): 267-296.  × The east Asian lacertid lizard genus, Takydromus, is well-defined but its relationships to other primitive Palaearctic lacertids are still uncertain and, although it has similarities to the lower Miocene Miolacerta. Takydromus does not appear to be identical with this. The 16 or 17 recognizable species are reviewed and a key provided for their identification; the remaining area of uncertainty about species boundaries is the Takydromus sexlineatus group in Assam. A phylogeny for Takydromus is estimated using a data set of 35 morphological characters drawn from external features, skeleton and soft-parts. There are two main constituent clades which may be informally recognized as Takydromus s.s. and Platyplacopus. Platyplacopus is subtropical and perhaps relict, whereas Takydromus ranges from temperature to tropical areas. The two clades have different ranges of eggs per clutch. In both of them, elongate forms that climb-extensively in flimsy vegetation have evolved and have independently acquired similar features that confer performance advantages in this situation. Interestingly, the order of assembly of these features is markedly different. Tang, X.-S. & Lu, S.-Q. & Chou, W.-H. (2007) - Description of male Takydromus sylvaticus (Squamata: Lacertidae) from China, with notes on sexual dimorphism and a revision of the morphological diagnosis of the species. - Zoological Science, Tokyo, 24: 496-503. × The Chung-an ground lizard, Takydromus sylvaticus, long known only from five females collected in Fujian Province of China, was recently found in Anhui Province of the country. The newly collected
specimens included the first male specimens (n=7), in which the tail bases were stouter than in conspecific females. Ventral scales in these males were invariably keeled, whereas in females those forming the four median rows were smooth. Females had more dorsal scales (47–48) than males (42–43) in the median longitudinal row between axilla and groin. Takydromus sylvaticus differed
from the closely related T. dorsalis in having more dorsal scales in the median longitudinal row between axilla and groin (42–48 versus 32–40, respectively), more rows of large dorsal scales between the hind legs (10 versus 7–8, respectively), shorter hind legs, two distinct white longitudinal
stripes on each side of the body, and no black stripe in the preocular and postocular regions. The number of transverse rows of ventral scales between collar and femoral pores in T. sylvaticus(26–28) was larger, but with a slight overlap, than that in T. dorsalis (22–26). Ecological observations on T. sylvaticus were also documented. Tang, X.S. & Chen, J.M. & Huang, S. (2014) - Mitochondrial genome of the Chung-an ground lizard Takydromus sylvaticus (Reptilia: Lacertidae). - Mitochondrial DNA, 25 (4): 319-320. × The Chung-an ground lizard Takydromus sylvaticus is an endemic and long-lost reptile species in China. In this study, its mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence was firstly determined by long PCR and primer walking methods. The genome is 17,838 bp long and contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes and 2 main noncoding regions (the control region and the putative L-strand replication origin). The gene order and contents in the T. sylvaticus mitogenome is identical to that found in typical vertebrates, suggesting that it represents an ancestral arrangement. Within the control region, typical conserved domains and distinct repeat regions were identified.
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