Ota's mountain lizard (Cristidorsa otai) is a species of lizard in the subfamily Draconinae of the family Agamidae. The species is native to Southern Asia.
Etymology The specific name, otai, is in honor of Japanese herpetologist Hidetoshi Ota (born 1959).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Japalura otai, p. 197).
Geographic distribution Cristidorsa otai is endemic to Mizoram state in northeastern India.
Description Adult males of Cristidorsa otai have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . Females are larger, at SVL.
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Further reading
Mahony, Stephen (2009). "A new species of Japalura (Reptilia: Agamidae) from northeast India with a discussion of the similar species Japalura sagittifera Smith, 1940 and Japalura planidorsata Jerdon, 1870". Zootaxa 2212: 41–61. (Japalura otai, new species). Wang, Kai; Che, Jing; Lin, Simin; Deepak, V.; Aniruddha, Datta-Roy; Jiang, Ke; Jin, Jieqiong; Chen, Hongman; Siler, Cameron D. (2018). "Multilocus phylogeny and revised classification for mountain dragons of the genus Japalura s.l. (Reptilia: Agamidae: Draconinae) from Asia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 (1): 246–267. (Cristidorsa, new genus; Cristidorsa otai, new combination).