Overview
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Interesting Facts
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- The Frill-necked Lizard is so called because of the large ruff of skin which usually lies folded back against its head and neck. The neck frill is supported by long spines of cartilage, and when the lizard is frightened, it gapes its mouth showing a bright pink or yellow lining , and the frill flares out, displaying bright orange and red scales . The frill may also aid in thermoregulation.
- They may grow up to one meter in total length. They often walk quadrupedally when on the ground . When frightened they begin to run on all-fours and then accelerate onto the hind-legs. In Australia, the frill-necked lizard is also known as thebicycle lizard because of this behaviour. Males are significantly larger than females both as juveniles and when mature . The frill of the Australian frilled dragon is used to frighten off potential predators as well as hissing and lunging. If this fails to ward off the threat , the lizard flees bipedally to a nearby tree where it climbs to the top and relies on camouflage to keep it hidden.
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Frilled Dragon, Frilled Lizard
Common Names in German:
Kragenechse
Description
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Habitat
subhumid to semi-arid grassy woodlands and dry sclerophyll forests .
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 351 meters (0 to 1,152 feet).[1]
Ecology:
This is an arboreal
and diurnal
lizard, occurring in dry sclerophyll
forests
and woodlands (Cogger 2000).[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry [more info]
Biology
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Diet
They usually eat insects and most small invertebrates , but sometimes they do eat small mammals.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
()
- Infraorder:
Iguania
()
- Family:
Agamidae
()
- Subfamily:
Agaminae
()
- Genus:
Chlamydosaurus
()
- Gray, in King, 1827[1826]
- Specific name:
kingii
- Gray, 1825
- Scientific name: - Chlamydosaurus kingii Gray, 1825
- Specific name:
kingii
- Gray, 1825
- Genus:
Chlamydosaurus
(
- Subfamily:
Agaminae
(
- Family:
Agamidae
(
- Infraorder:
Iguania
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Chlamydosaurus kingi — De Rooij 1915: 126 • Chlamydosaurus kingii — Boulenger 1885: 401 • Chlamydosaurus kingii — Cogger 1983 • Chlamydosaurus kingii — Cogger 2000: 305 • Chlamydosaurus Kingii — DumÉril & Bibron 1837: 441 • Chlamydosaurus kingii — Manthey & Schuster 1999: 42
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Holotype: presumably lost (fide COGGER 1983)
This is the sole
member
of its genus.[2].
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Chlamydosaurus
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More Info
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Further Reading
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- Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; by Carl Lumholtz...tr. by Rasmus B. Anderson... New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1889. url p. 384.
- Bird notes. Brighton: Foreign Bird Club: 1902-1925. url .
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 77 1934 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 256, p. 330.
- Catalogue of the lizards in the British museum (Natural history) / London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1885-87. url .
- Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage / by Richard Hesse. .. prepared by W. C. Allee. .. and Karl P. Schmidt. .. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1937. url p. 382, p. 565.
- Guide to the Galleries of Reptiles and fishes [London]: BM(NH), 1893 url p. 12, p. 14.
- Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia [London]: BM(NH), 1885 url p. 12, p. 14.
- Guide to the galleries of reptiles and fishes in the Department of zoology of the British museum (Natural history) Illustrated by 101 woodcuts. [London]The Trustees, 1898. url p. 12.
- Hardwicke's science-gossip: an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1866- url p. 94.
- Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Jena, Gustav Fischer [etc.]. url p. 395.
- Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1912- url p. 195, p. 43.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , p. 179, p. 300, p. 302, p. 304, p. 306, p. 308, p. 310, p. 312, p. 316, p. 318, p. 642.
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. [Brisbane, Royal Society of Queensland]1885- url p. 57.
- Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 35.
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url , p. 82.
- Records of the South Australian Museum / Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia. Adelaide: Published under the authority of the board of governors and edited by the museum director, 1918- url p. 200.
- Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 19.
- Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 141 1961 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 275, p. 447.
- The American journal of anatomy. Baltimore, MD: [s.n.], 1902-1991. url p. 75.
- The Riverside natural history. Ed. by John Sterling Kingsley. Articles by C.C. Abbott, J.A. Allen, W.B. Barrows [etc.]. .. Illustrated by more than twenty-two hundred woodcuts in the text, one hundred and sixty-eight full-page engr Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company[c1888] url p. 412.
- The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 170.
- The palatal dentition in squamate reptiles: morphology, development, attachment, and replacement / D. Luke Mahler, Maureen Kearney. 108 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2006. url p. 29.
- The reptiles of the Indo-Australian archipelago / by Nelly de Rooij. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1915-1917. url p. 126.
- The standard natural history. Boston, S. E. Cassino and Company, 1884-85. url .
- Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1912-1937. url p. 28.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Clark, M. A. WhoZoo.
- Doughty, P. & Allison, A. 2010. Chlamydosaurus kingii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Reptile Database
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2537706
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-1634
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481009
- IUCN ID: 199916
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 165425
Footnotes
- Mean = -189.800 meters (-622.703 feet), Standard Deviation = 942.070 based on 5 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Doughty, P. & Allison, A. 2010. Chlamydosaurus kingii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
