{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Automatic taxobox | image =Short-crested Bay Island forest lizard from South Andaman DSC 7544.jpg | taxon = Coryphophylax | authority = Fitzinger, 1867 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''Coryphophylax subcristatus'' (Blyth, 1861) * ''Coryphophylax brevicauda'' }}
'''''Coryphophylax''''' is an agamid genus endemic to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and a sister of the Southeast Asian ''Aphaniotis''. Found in tropical wet forests, they are common in suitable habitats and shows variations across islands and are sexually dimorphic. The genus is absent on Great Nicobar Island, with its southernmost occurrence on the island of Kondul. The tsunami of December 2004 may have affected island-wide distributions in the Nicobar Islands of several species and also their gene-flow.
==Taxonomic history== The species from the Andaman Islands was described by Edward Blyth as ''Tiaris subcristata'' in 1860 but technically published in 1861.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37191452|author=Blyth, E. |year=1860|title=Report of the curator, Zoological department|pages=87–115|journal= J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal |volume=29}}</ref> This species was described by Fitzinger in Steindachner's publication of 1867 and as ''Tiaris humei'' by Stoliczka in 1873 and these names are considered junior synonyms but placed in the genus erected by Fitzinger. The closely related genus ''Aphaniotis'' (and the more distant ''Otocryptis'') has a concealed tympanum while ''Gonocephalus'' has spines on the head or nape.<ref>{{cite journal|title=A new species of Coryphophylax Fitzinger in: Steindachner, 1867 (Sauria: Iguania: Agamidae) from the Andaman Islands, India|author1=Harikrishnan, S |author2=Karthikeyan Vasudevan |author3=S.R. Chandramouli |author4=B.C.Choudhury |author5=S.K.Dutta |author6=Indraneil Das |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3451|pages=31–45|year=2012|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3451.1.3 |url=https://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3199/1/A%20new%20species.pdf }}</ref> ===Species=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || ''Coryphophylax subcristatus'' (Blyth, 1861)|| Short-crested Bay Island forest lizard || India (Andaman Island, Nicobar Island) |- |120px || ''Coryphophylax brevicauda'' Harikrishnan, Vasudevan, Chandramouli, Choudhury, Dutta & Das, 2012 || Short-tailed Bay Island forest lizard || India (Andaman Islands) |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
<!-- cite inline according to need * Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. * Krishnan, S. 2005. Phylogenetic Status and Systematics of the Agamid Coryphophylax Blyth, 1861 (Reptilia: Squamata). unpublished Masters Thesis - University of Texas at Arlington. * Moody, S.M. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeographical relationships of the genera in the family Agamidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia). PhD Dissertation. University of Michigan. --> {{Taxonbar|from=Q2998206}}
Category:Coryphophylax Category:Lizard genera Category:Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger