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The thorny devil (Moloch horridus), also known commonly as the mountain devil, thorny lizard, thorny dragon, and moloch, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Australia. It is the sole species in the genus Moloch. It grows up to 21 cm (8.3 in) in total length (including tail), with females generally larger ...
The thorny devil color ranges from light brown to black and resembles bark or rotten wood. Both sexes are wingless and armored with spines on body and legs. Exhibiting the sexual dimorphism of many similar insects (particularly other phasmids as well as mantises ), males are small and thinner, less than 9-10 cm long while females are typically ...
(thorny devil) 1 Thorny devil (M. horridus) Physignathus (Chinese water dragon) 1 Chinese water dragon (P. cocincinus) Pogona (bearded dragons) 6 Central bearded dragon (P. vitticeps) Rankinia (heath dragon) 1 Mountain heath dragon (R. diemensis) Tropicagama (swamplands lashtail, northern water dragon) 1 Swamplands lashtail (T. temporalis ...
Eurycantha horrida, the thorny devil walking stick, [1] is a species belonging to the stick insects (order Phasmatodea) and to the family Phasmatidae. [ 2 ] Description
The common names spiny-headed katydid, spine-headed katydids, spike-headed katydids, thorny devil katydid, thorny devil bush cricket, and similar variations of the sort, do not apply to a single species or to this genus alone, and multiple species are often called by the same common name. Panacanthus are omnivorous but with strong predatory ...
The blood-squirting mechanism increases survival after contact with canine predators; [5] the trait may provide an evolutionary advantage. Ocular autohemorrhaging has also been documented in other lizards, [ 7 ] which suggests blood-squirting could have evolved from a less extreme defense in the ancestral branch of the genus.
This reference primarily uses thorny devil but mentions thorny dragon and three others. These two articles referenced (1 and 2) use only the binomial. Additionally, I found this BBC documentary, Wired article, and two Australian sites (1 and 2) that use thorny devil. Searching for "thorny devil" australia -wikipedia gave me 110,000 hits while ...
Each instar is different, but on their fifth and final instar they become a bright green color, with huge, black-tipped red horns, earning them their common name hickory horned devils. They feed heavily on their host plant for 37 to 42 days [ 2 ] and can grow up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in) long.