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Gippsland Water Dragon (Intellegama lesueurii howitii) (8397094289)🦎

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SpeciesAgamidae
Reptiles

🦎Australian water dragon

Intellagama lesueurii (Gray, 1831)

横纹长鬣蜥（學名：Physignathus lesueurii）俗称澳洲水龙，是飞蜥科的一种蜥蜴。分布在澳大利亚东部，范围从维多利亚州北部到昆士兰州，在南澳大利亚州的东南海岸亦有小种群分布。下有兩個亞種，分別是Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii及 P. l. howitti。

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≈ 1/68th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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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 mass
0.91 kgmaximum recorded
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Maximum lifespan
28 yearsmaximum recorded
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Diet
Omnivorous
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Foraging mode
ACT
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Venomous
No
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Snout–vent length
0.29 mmaximum recorded
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By sex

  • Female0.21 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0.9 Laverage
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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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyAgamidae
  5. ›genusIntellagama
  6. ›speciesIntellagama lesueurii
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. familyAgamidae
  3. subfamilyAmphibolurinae
  4. genusIntellagama
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. suborderIguania
  12. familyAgamidae
  13. subfamilyAmphibolurinae
  14. genusIntellagama
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Australische Wasseragame (de), Intellagama lesueurii (it), Dragón de agua Australiano (es), Intellagama lesueurii (fr), Австралийски воден дракон (bg), Водяная ящерица (ru) … and 16 more languages
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