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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.
A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-061-1. (Ophisaurus buettikoferi, p. 88). Lidth de Jeude TW (1905). "Zoological results of the Dutch Scientific Expedition to Central-Borneo. The Reptiles. Part I. Lizards". Notes from the Leyden Museum 25: 187–202.
Scientific Name Common Name Distribution Gonocephalus bellii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837) Bell's anglehead lizard, Bell's forest dragon: Thailand, Malacca, Perak, Pahang, Selangor, Indonesia (Borneo), and West Malaysia Gonocephalus beyschlagi (Boettger, 1892) Sumatra forest dragon: Sumatra, Indonesia. Gonocephalus bornensis (Schlegel, 1848)
The generic name Varanus is derived from the Arabic waral (ورل), which translates as "monitor". The specific name is the Latin word for "saviour", denoting a possible religious connotation. [2] The water monitor is occasionally confused with the crocodile monitor (V. salvadorii) because of their similar scientific names. [3]
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.
Das, Indraneil (2004).Lizards of Borneo: A Pocket Guide.Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Natural History Publications. 89 pp. ISBN 978-9838120807. Das, Indraneil (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo.
"Two new species of Dibamus (Squamata: Dibamidae) from Borneo". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (1): 137–141. (Dibamus vorisi, new species). Das I (2004). Lizards of Borneo: A Pocket Guide. Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Natural History Publications. 89 pp. ISBN 978-9838120807. Das I (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo.
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.