Diporiphora amphiboluroides LUCAS & FROST, 1902

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mulga Dragon
Synonym	Diporiphora amphiboluroides LUCAS & FROST 1902: 76 Caimanops amphiboluroides — STORR 1974: 125 Caimanops amphiboluroides — COGGER 1983 Caimanops amphiboluroides — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 28 Caimanops amphiboluroides — COGGER 2000: 303 Caimanops amphiboluroides — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 354 Diporiphora amphiboluroides — HUGALL et al. 2008 Diporiphora amphiboluroides — DOUGHTY et al. 2012 Caimanops amphiboluroides — COGGER 2014: 698 Diporiphora amphiboluroides — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 74
Distribution	Australia (Western Australia: NW coastal, W plateau) Type locality: Western Australia
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: NMV D8813 (formerly WAM)
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Comment	Lifestyle: semi-arboreal. Type species: Caimanops amphiboluroides is the type species of the genus Caimanops Storr (1974), who removed it from Diporiphora based on the presence of crests, short appendages, elongate snout and blunt tail.
Etymology	Presumably named after Amphibolurus (a genus of agamids) plus the Greek suffix -eides (like). (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Chapple, David G.; Reid Tingley, Nicola J. Mitchell, Stewart L. Macdonald, J. Scott Keogh, Glenn M. Shea, Philip Bowles, Neil A. Cox, John C. Z. Woinarski 2019. The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017. CSIRO, 663 pp. DOI: 10.1071/9781486309474 - get paper here Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Glauert, L. 1959. Herpetological Miscellanea. X. Dragon Lizards. Western Australian Naturalist 7: 11-19 - get paper here HUGALL, ANDREW F.; RALPH FOSTER , MARK HUTCHINSON and MICHAEL S. Y. LEE 2008. Phylogeny of Australasian agamid lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes: implications for morphological evolution and biogeography. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93 (2): 343 -358 - get paper here Lucas, A. H. S. & Frost, C. 1902. Descriptions of some new lizards from Western Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 15: 76-79 - get paper here Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva, Y. Wang, R. Pethiyagoda, N. Rastegar-Pouyani, T. J. Papenfuss 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 Maryan, B., Gaikhorst, G., & Parkhurst, B. 2024. The terrestrial herpetofauna of the Zuytdorp coast and hinterland of Western Australia: Exceptional richness in a global biodiversity hotspot. Western Australian Naturalist, 33, 3 Pianka, E. R. 1969. Habitat specificity, speciation, and species density in Australian desert lizards. Ecology 50 (3): 498-502 - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1974. Agamid lizards of the genera Caimanops, Physignathus and Diporiphora in Western Australia and Northern Territory. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 3: 121-146 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/lizards/agamids/camphibol.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Agamidae/Caimanops… Google images

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