Australian Water Dragon - Intellegama lesueurii
Basking on a culvert above a small swamp on Cullenbenbong road in the Kanimbla Valley. Estimated length 70 cm, taken from the car window.
Male of female? Patrick Campbell (Blue Mountains bushman) will know.
Trouble is, I have never seen a water dragon with this overall even colouration.
I'm seeing the distinctively deep angular head and nuchal crest of spinose scales that joins the vertebral crest extending down the length of its body to the tail.
The enlarged spinose scales present across the lateral surface, unevenly distributed amongst regular keeled scales.
The jowls are large and tympanum is exposed and of almost equal size of the eye.
The dorsal ridge and tail are laterally compressed and the limbs are strong and robust with particularly long toes on the hind legs.
It all says water dragon...
The EOL group is no longer be harvested to the Encyclopedia of Life database.
Submitted direct to Atlas of Living Australia - www.ala.org.au/
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Australian Water Dragon - Intellegama lesueurii
Basking on a culvert above a small swamp on Cullenbenbong road in the Kanimbla Valley. Estimated length 70 cm, taken from the car window.
Male of female? Patrick Campbell (Blue Mountains bushman) will know.
Trouble is, I have never seen a water dragon with this overall even colouration.
I'm seeing the distinctively deep angular head and nuchal crest of spinose scales that joins the vertebral crest extending down the length of its body to the tail.
The enlarged spinose scales present across the lateral surface, unevenly distributed amongst regular keeled scales.
The jowls are large and tympanum is exposed and of almost equal size of the eye.
The dorsal ridge and tail are laterally compressed and the limbs are strong and robust with particularly long toes on the hind legs.
It all says water dragon...
The EOL group is no longer be harvested to the Encyclopedia of Life database.
Submitted direct to Atlas of Living Australia - www.ala.org.au/
See more at: