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Basking water dragon in Brisbane's City Botanic Gardens. As its common name suggests, the Australian water dragon is associated with water and is semi-aquatic. It can be found near creeks, rivers, lakes, and other water bodies that have basking sites such as overhanging branches or rocks in open or filtered sun.
Pogona is a genus of reptiles containing eight lizard species, which are often known by the common name bearded dragons or informally (especially in Australia) beardies. The name "bearded dragon" refers to the underside of the throat (or "beard") of the lizard, which can turn black and become inflated for a number of reasons, most often as a result of stress, if they feel threatened, [2] or ...
It is monotypic with a single recognised species, Gowidon longirostris, commonly known as the long-snouted lashtail [1] or long-nosed water dragon. It is found in Northern Territory , Queensland , South Australia , Western Australia , Australia, and in New Guinea .
Crested bicycle dragon (C. cristatus) Diporiphora (two-lined dragons) 28 Tommy roundhead (D. australis) Gowidon (long-snouted lashtail, long-nosed water dragon) 1 Long-snouted lashtail (G. longirostris) Hypsilurus (rainforest dragons) 18 H. auritus. Intellagama (Australian water dragon) 1 Australian water dragon (I. lesueurii) Lophognathus: 2
Agamidae is a family containing 64 genera, 582 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards .
Water dragon may refer to: Sea serpent, a type of sea monster that is sometimes known as the Water Dragon; Australian water dragon, Intellagama lesueurii, a lizard native to eastern Australia; Chinese water dragon, Physignathus cocincinus, a lizard native to mainland Asia; Saururus cernuus, plant species also known as water-dragon
The genus is monotypic, with only one species listed: Tropicagama temporalis, commonly known as the swamplands lashtail or northern water dragon. [3] This semi-arboreal species inhabits the tropical savannah woodlands of northern Australia , as well as parts of New Guinea [ 2 ] and southeastern Indonesia .
Perenties are the largest living species of lizard in Australia. Perenties can grow to lengths of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) and weigh up to 20 kg (44 lb), possibly up to 3 m (9 ft 10 in) and 40 kg (88 lb), making it the fourth-largest extant species of lizard (exceeded in size only by the Komodo dragon, Asian water monitor and crocodile monitor).