Alitta virens by Alexander Semenov https://flic.kr/p/2ocVyhA
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i love it when characters are unfair, actually. i love it when they’re uncouth and cranky and hypocritical, i love it when they have cognitive dissonances, i love it when they make good and bad choices for the wrong reasons. i love when they’re short to anger and hard to understand. i love it when they’ve destroyed themselves for nothing but can’t even see either part of it yet. i love it when they’re messy and selfish and bad at communicating. i love it when they get convinced of their own ego and stuck in a feedback loop regarding their own warped paranoia. i love it when characters actively make their lives unknowingly harder for themselves. i love it when characters don’t know they’re in a story. i love it when characters are like real people
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Alitta virens by Alexander Semenov
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Wouldn't expect less for Season 6 🙏
Based on a conversation i had on twitter
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Flying dragons
Hoser, R. T. 2022.
Twenty one new species and eleven new subspecies of Asian Flying Dragon Lizard (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae: Draco).
Australasian Journal of Herpetology ®
Issue 60, published 16 August 2022 pages 1-64.
https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-I60-Split.htm
ABSTRACT
The iconic Agamid genus Draco Linnaeus, 1758, better known as the Flying Dragons have been well-known
to herpetologists for centuries.
More accurately described as gliding lizards, because of their habit of gliding from trees, these winged
dragons are found from southern India in the west to eastern Indonesia in the east.
Most of approximately 40 currently recognized species were formally named over 100 years ago (1900 or
earlier), with just three species formally named from year 1999 onwards or just 9 between 1908 and 2022.
This is in spite of there clearly being other obviously unnamed forms awaiting scientifi c recognition as valid
species (see for example the results of studies by Inger 1983, Musters 1983, Lazell 1992, McGuire and
Alcala 2000, or McGuire and Heang 2001).
Rather than allowing these species to expire due to ongoing deforestation and other forms of pressure,
combined with potential indifference from the scientifi c community, the general population declines being
caused by the human population explosion in Asia, this paper formally names in accordance with the
rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999), 20 new species and 11 new
subspecies.
These include the following:
1/ Two taxa previously associated with Draco (Pterosaurus) dussumieri Duméril and Bibron, 1837 from south
India.
2/ Six species from islands east of Java, Indonesia, associated with D. (Draco) volans Linnaeus, 1758.
3/ Twelve species and three subspecies in the D. (Draco) spilopterus Wiegmann, 1834 sensu lato complex
from the Philippines.
4/ Two species and a new subspecies associated with Philippine endemic D. (Philippinedraco) bimaculatus.
5/ Four subspecies within the D. (Rhacodracon) fi mbriatus Kuhl, 1820 species complex, one from west
Sumatra and three from Borneo.
6/ Two subspecies in the D. (Somniadraco) blanfordii Boulenger, 1885 complex from west Myanmar (Burma)
and east Myanmar including nearby north-west Thailand.
Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature; skinks; Asia; India; Indonesia; Philippines; Myanmar; Thailand; Draco;
Pterosaurus; Somniadraco; dussumieri; spilopterus; volans; timoriensis; blanfordii; fi mbriatus; boschmai;
novillii; ornatus; quadrasi; cyanopterus; guentheri; bimaculatus; lineatus; new species; labatur; baliensis;
lombokensis; evadendi; latebras; viridicapite; sumbaensis; hoserae; wellsi; wellingtoni; hawkeswoodi; woolfi;
spadix; romblonensis; magnaauris; oculiscaeruleis; virens; viridfacium; bruneialvum; toscanoi; graysoni; new
subspecies; occultation; polilloensis; boholensis; exquisita; brunneis; dilatatadorsisquamae; asperacaput;
longacrista; coriafacile; cuspisfemen; incredibilis.
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