Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Dwarf Bearded Dragon, North-West Bearded Dragon, Western Bearded Dragon, Western Bearded Dragon, Dwarf Bearded Dragon
Common Names in German:
Mitchells Bartagame)
Taxonomy
- 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
- Class:
Lepidosauria
(
)
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
)
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
)
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
)
-
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Lepidosauria
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Amphibolurus barbatus minor Sternfeld 1919 • Amphibolurus minor Cogger 1983 • Pogona minor minor Manthey & Schuster 1999: 96 • Pogona minor — Cogger 2000: 349
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Lectotype
: SMF 10339 (designated by Mertens 1967) In areas
where both mitchellii and minor occur the two forms hybridize
(MANTHEY
& SCHUSTER 1999). Max
. total length: 40 cm (SVL: 16 cm) [minor]
Max. total length: 40 cm (SVL: 170 mm, TL
250 mm) [mitchelli] Named
after Latin minor for small or smaller; P. (m.
) mitchelli was named
after Francis John Mitchell, Cuator of the South Australian
Museum
in Adelaide.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Pogona
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. barbata (Eastern Bearded Dragon) · P. henrylawsoni (Black-Soil Bearded Dragon) · P. microlepidota (Kimberley Bearded Dragon) · P. minima (Western Bearded Dragon) · P. minor (Western Bearded Dragon) · P. nullarbor (Nullabor Bearded Dragon) · P. vitticeps (Inland Bearded Dragon)
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Further Reading
- Badham (1976) AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 24(3) 1976: 423-443
- Cogger (2000) Rept. Amph. of Australia, 6th ed.
- Cogger, H. G. (1992): Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. 5th Ed. - In: Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, edition 5 (Cornell Univ. Press ed.)
- Hauschild et al. (1997) Bartagamen und Kragenechsen. NTV (Münster), 95 pp.
- Manthey & Schuster (1999) Agamen, 2. Aufl., Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster).
- Mertens (1967) Senckenbergiana, Biologica. Frankfurt am Main, 48: 1-106
- Müller (2002) Die Bartagame. Kirschner und Seufer Verlag, Keltern-Weiler, 78 pp.
- Müller (2005) Draco 5 (22): 4-19
- Palika (2003) Leben mit Bartagamen. NTV (Münster), 206 pp.
- Pianka (2005) Draco 5 (22): 63-66
- Schuster (2005) Draco 5 (22): 67-73
- Sternfeld (1919) Senckenbergiana 1: 76-83
- Storr (1982) Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 19 (2): 199-214
- Wilson et al. (1988) Cornstalk Publishing, Pymble, NSW, 447 pp.
Notes
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 & 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 February 1, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- 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:
- California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
- Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Amphibians and Reptiles Collection
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2543891
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-5797
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13550655
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 608816
