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Chlamydosaurus kingii GRAY, 1825

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Frilled Lizard, frillneck lizard
G: Kragenechse 
SynonymClamydosaurus [sic] kingii GRAY 1825: 197
Chlamydosaurus kingii — GRAY in KING 1827: 244 (nom. emend.)
Chlamydosaurus Kingii — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 441
Chlamydosaurus kingii — BOULENGER 1885: 401
Chlamydosaurus kingi — DE ROOIJ 1915: 126
Chlamydosaurus kingii — COGGER 1983
Chlamydosaurus kingii — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 42
Chlamydosaurus kingii — COGGER 2000: 305
Chlamydosaurus kingii — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Chlamydosaurus kingii mickpughi HOSER 2012
Chlamydosaurus kingii pughae HOSER 2012
Chlamydosaurus kingii — CHAPPLE et al. 2019 
DistributionPapua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

Type locality: Australia. Restricted to Port Nelson, NW coast of Australia by Gray, 1826/1827. Also given as Careening Bay, WA.  
Reproductionoviparous. Exhibits temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) fide Cornejo-Páramo et al. 2020 (and references therein). 
TypesHolotype: lost, formerly RCSHC = RCL, fide COGGER 1983, Melville et al. 2018: 42 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: easily recognizable by the large, loose “frill” of skin around neck, which is unique to this genus and species. 
CommentType species: Chlamydosaurus kingii GRAY 1825 is the type species of the genus Chlamydosaurus GRAY 1825.

Synonymy: KAISER et al. 2013 rejected all names coined by HOSER in or after 2000.

Population structure: Pepper et al. 2016 showed 3 clearly genetically separated allopatric populations along the northern coast of Australia in this species. However, they did not name them as separate taxa. 
Etymologynamed after Captain and Admiral Philip Parker King (1791-1856), Australian-born British marine surveyor and collector. 
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