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Gippsland Water Dragon

Intellagama lesueurii howittii

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Phillip Island Wildlife Park.

Reference Links:

Gippsland Water Dragon - ANBG

Species ID Suggestions

eastern water dragon

Intellagama lesueurii

Reference Link
Scott Frazier
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Comments (5)
Neil Ross
Slip-slop-slap, Pam. You know the drill. Costa Rica sounds awesome. I'm not doing anything near as amazing as you, but lots of outdoors stuff is planned for my hols :-)
pamsai
thanks Neil for fine tuning the ID... I'm well. Kicking myself for forgetting to put sunscreen on my legs when I went snorkeling yesterday... Lobster red today ! I'm in the amazing Osa Peninsular, SW Costa Rica, full-on rainforest... Biodiversity hot-spot. Hope you are having fun on your hols.
Neil Ross
Hi Pam. How are you? From the location of this spotting, this could be a Gippsland Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii howittii). The Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii) has a dark stripe from ear to eye, that the Gippsland sub-species lacks. https://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/visiting/exploring/fauna/reptiles/dragon.html
pamsai
thanks Scott. I knew that... must have missed it!

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