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Draco is a genus of agamid lizards [1] that are also known as flying lizards, flying dragons or gliding lizards. These lizards are capable of gliding flight via membranes that may be extended to create wings ( patagia ), formed by an enlarged set of ribs.
Dorsal scales but little larger than the ventrals, irregular, smooth or very feebly keeled; on each side of the back a series of large trihedral keeled distant scales. The fore limb stretched forwards reaches beyond the tip of the snout; the adpressed hind limb reaches a little beyond the elbow of the adpressed fore limb, or to the axilla ...
Draco volans, also commonly known as the common flying dragon, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The species is endemic to Southeast Asia . [ 2 ] Like other members of genus Draco , this species has the ability to glide using winglike lateral extensions of skin called patagia .
Draco melanopogon, commonly known as the black-bearded gliding lizard or black-barbed flying dragon, is a species of agamid "flying lizard" endemic to Southeast Asia. [1] It is a typically forest-dwelling arboreal lizard. [2] It preys on small invertebrates like ants and is oviparous. They are notable for relying solely on dewlap-mediated ...
Lryiocephalus is a genus of lizard within the agamid family, with the sole species Lryiocephalus scutatus. It is the largest agamid endemic to Sri Lanka [1] and lives in dense wet zone forests. [3] It is also called the hump-nosed lizard, hump snout lizard or the lyreshead lizard. In Sinhalese language, it is known as "Kandukara Bodilima ...
Namaqua chameleon showing long tongue by catching a beetle. Unlike the arboreal chameleons of the genus Chamaeleo, its tail is not prehensile, but otherwise it still hunts in the same way, slowly stalking its prey and catching it with its long tongue. Unusually for a chameleon, they will also chase down prey attempting to flee and will ...
Draco haematopogon, the red-bearded flying dragon or yellow-bearded gliding lizard, is a species of agamid lizard. [2] It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia . References
Chameleons grasp their prey with a projectile tongue. This is made possible by a hyoid mechanism, which is the contraction of the hyoid muscle that drives the tip of the tongue outwards. [33] An eastern blue-tongued lizard preyed upon by an eastern brown snake. Within the subclass Lepidosauria there are herbivores, omnivores, insectivores, and ...