🦎Australian water dragon
The Australian water dragon, which includes the eastern water dragon and the Gippsland water dragon subspecies, is a semi aquatic agamid species native to eastern Australia from Victoria northwards to Queensland. There may be a small introduced population on the south-east coast of South Australia. The Gippsland water dragon is generally the more southern of the two subspecies and the more cold adapted and heat sensitive. Visually distinguishing the Gippsland water dragon from the Eastern water dragon is relatively easy, as long as their skin is reasonably clean and not stained from the water, as identification of the two subspecies depends largely on observable differences in colours and patterns.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 0.91 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 28 years
Everything we know about the Australian water dragon
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.91 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan28 yearsmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietOmnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.29 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.21 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l0.9 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Australian water dragon yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyAgamidae
- ›genusIntellagama
- ›speciesIntellagama lesueurii
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- familyAgamidae
- subfamilyAmphibolurinae
- genusIntellagama
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- suborderIguania
- familyAgamidae
- subfamilyAmphibolurinae
- genusIntellagama
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