Moloch horridus GRAY, 1841

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Thorny Devil, Mountain Devil G: Dornteufel, Moloch
Synonym	Moloch horridus GRAY 1841 Acanthosaura gibbosus BERTHOLD 1846 Moloch horridus — BOULENGER 1885: 411 Moloch horridus — COGGER 1983 Moloch horridus — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 84 Moloch horridus — COGGER 2000: 344 Moloch horridus — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	C Australia (North Territory, Queensland, South Australia, West Australia) Type locality: Western Australia Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and not in every cases it works well. We are working on it.
Types	Holotype: unknown
Comment	Type species: Moloch horridus GRAY 1841 is the type specis of the genus Moloch GRAY 1841. Abundance: not uncommon, with more than 200 specimens collected (Pianka 2011)
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Cogger,H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Gray, J. E. 1841. Description of some new species and four new genera of reptiles from Western Australia, discovered by John Gould, Esq. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 7: 86-91 - get paper here Hutchinson, Mark N. and Rhonda G. Hutchinson 2011. Karyotypes of Moloch and Chelosania (Squamata: Acrodonta). Journal of Herpetology 45 (2): 216-218. - get paper here Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva, Y. Wang, R. Pethiyagoda, N. Rastegar-Pouy 2000. Evaluating trans-Tethys migration: an example using acrodont lizard phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 49 (2): 233-256 - get paper here Manthey,U. & SCHUSTER,N. 1999. Agamen, 2. Aufl. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 120 pp. - get paper here Pianka, E. R. 1969. Habitat specificity, speciation, and species density in Australian desert lizards. Ecology 50 (3): 498-502 - get paper here Pianka, Eric R. 1997. Australia's Thorny Devil. Reptiles 5 (11): 14-23 - get paper here Pianka, Eric R.;Pianka, Helen D. 1970. The ecology of Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in Western Australia. Copeia 1970 (1): 90-103 - get paper here Pianka, G A; E R Pianka & G G Thompson 1998. Natural history of thorny devils Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in the Great Victoria Desert. J. Roy. Soc. West. Aust. 81: 183-190 - get paper here Siebenrock, Friedrich 1892. Ueber Wirbelassimilation bei den Sauriern. Annalen des Königlichen Kaiserlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseum in Wien 7: 373-378 Wilson,S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/lizards/agamids/agamids.htm http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/agamidae.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Agamidae/Moloch/horridus Google images

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