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The frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii), also known commonly as the frilled agama, the frillneck lizard, the frill-necked lizard, and the frilled dragon, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea and is the only member of the genus Chlamydosaurus.
Certain physical features of some lizards of these species, such as frilled-neck lizards, play a role in their defensive responses, as well. During the mating season, males tend to display more of their frill, and give fight responses more often.
Frill-necked lizard showing its neck frills Skull of Triceratops with its large neck frill. A neck frill is the relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles with either a bony support such as those present on the skulls of dinosaurs of the suborder Marginocephalia or a cartilaginous one as in the frill-necked lizard.
This type of lizard loves to spend its days foraging for insects, plants and small animals. ... These medium-to-large reptiles come with a frill around their neck that they can puff up to scare ...
Unusual species of chameleon and gonocephalus are at the top; the second row has a flying dragon and a Texas horned lizard; the third row has a flying gecko and a common basilisk; on the bottom row are the aptly named frill-necked lizard and the Thorny Devil. As in many of Haeckel's prints, the colors and spatial composition are more of an ...
Parthenogenesis is a mode of asexual reproduction in which offspring are produced by females without the genetic contribution of a male. Among all the sexual vertebrates, the only examples of true parthenogenesis, in which all-female populations reproduce without the involvement of males, are found in squamate reptiles (snakes and lizards). [1]
The frilled neck serves to make it look bigger than it actually is. Main article: Antipredator adaptation Lizards have a variety of antipredator adaptations , including running and climbing, venom , camouflage , tail autotomy , and reflex bleeding .
(frilled-neck lizard) 1 Frilled dragon . Cryptagama (gravel dragon) 1 Ctenophorus (comb-bearing dragons) 34 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