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Eastern Water Dragon
Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii
-27.4768, 152.976
Field Notes
Description:
With a head-body length up to 23 cm and a tail length of up to 80 cm, the Australian Water Dragon is Australia's largest agamid lizard. Water Dragons were previously considered to belong to a single genus of two species, Physignathus. However, recent DNA studies have led to the two species being divided into two genera — Physignathus and Intellagama. The Water Dragon species found in Australia is divided into two subspecies; the Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii, previously known as Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii) and the Gippsland Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii howitti, previously known as Physignathus lesueurii howitti).
Habitat:
A large pond at the botanical gardens at Mt Coot-tha, established on subtropical woodlands, where they roam freely as they do in many other parts of Brisbane.
Notes:
Australian water dragons are semi-aquatic and typically perch in conspicuous ways near creeks, rivers, lakes and other water bodies. This one was disturbed by an ibis which can just be seen on the last shot.
Thank you Neil Ross for spotting this beauty.
See this dragon in the water here:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/275306016
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