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Gonocephalus bornensis, the Borneo anglehead lizard or Borneo forest dragon, is an agamid lizard endemic to Borneo in Indonesia and Malaysia, and known from Sabah, Kinabalu, Brunei, Sarawak and Kalimantan.
The earless monitor lizard was described in 1878 by Franz Steindachner. [6] The genus name Lanthanotus means "hidden ear" and the species name borneensis refers to its home island of Borneo. [7] The uniqueness of the species was immediately recognized and Steindachner placed it in its own family, Lanthanotidae.
Borneo anglehead lizard, Borneo forest dragon: Sabah, Kinabalu, Brunei, Sarawak and Kalimantan Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus (Laurenti, 1768) chameleon forest dragon, chameleon anglehead lizard: Indonesia and Malaysia Gonocephalus doriae (W. Peters, 1871) Doria's angle-headed lizard: Borneo Gonocephalus grandis (Gray, 1845)
The name Sauria was coined by James Macartney (1802); [66] it was the Latinisation of the French name Sauriens, coined by Alexandre Brongniart (1800) for an order of reptiles in the classification proposed by the author, containing lizards and crocodilians, [67] later discovered not to be each other's closest relatives.
Lizards of Borneo: A Pocket Guide. Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Natural History Publications. 89 pp. ISBN 978-9838120807. ("Sphenomorphus buettikoferi [sic]"). Lidth de Jeude TW (1905). "Zoological results of the Dutch Scientific Expedition to Central Borneo. — The Reptiles". Notes from the Leyden Museum 25: 187–202.
Gonocephalus doriae (Doria's angle-headed lizard) is a species of arboreal lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to the island of Borneo . Etymology
The generic name Varanus is derived from the Arabic word ورل waral [Standard Arabic] / ورر warar [colloquially] / ورن waran [colloquially], from a common Semitic root ouran, waran, warar or waral, meaning "lizard beast". [3] In English, they are known as "monitors" or "monitor lizards". The earlier term "monitory lizard" became rare by ...
S. Sabah bow-fingered gecko; Sabah keelback; Sabah scaly-toed gecko; Saltwater crocodile; Siamese crocodile; Sibynophis geminatus; Sibynophis melanocephalus