Lophosaurus boydii (MACLEAY, 1884)

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Boyd's Forest Dragon
Synonym	Tiaris boydii MACLEAY 1884: 432 Gonyocephalus boydii — BOULENGER 1885: 297 Gonyocephalus boydii — OUDEMANS 1894: 135 Goniocephalus boydii — ZWINENBERG 1974 Gonocephalus boydii — KAHL et al. 1980: 161 Gonocephalus boydii — COGGER 1983 Hypsilurus boydii — COGGER 2000: 337 Gonocephalus boydii — GREER 2006 (online) Hypsilurus boydii — MANTHEY & DENZER 2006: 24 Lophosaurus boydii — DENZER & MANTHEY 2016 Lophosaurus boydii — CHAPPLE et al. 2019: 85
Distribution	Australia (NE Queensland) Type locality: Ripple Creek district, Herbert River, Qld.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: AMS (AM) R31884-5
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Medium–sized, short tailed species with heterogeneous dorsal scalation and a discontinuous vertebral crest. Several enlarged plates and large conical scales next to the tympanum; no row of enlarged submaxillaries; anterior edge of the gular pouch with enlarged, triangular scales.H. boydii differs from dilophus and spinipes by the presence of plates and conical scales below the tympanum; all other species by a heterogeneous dorsal scalation (Manthey & Denzer 2006: 24). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 32 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	H. boydii was on the cover of Nature, 8 Jan 2004.
Etymology	Named after John Archibald Boyd (1846-1926), an English-born professional natural history collector who emigrated to Australia (1857) and worked for the Australian Museum.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here 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 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. Conroy, S. 1999. Lizard Assemblage Response to a Forest Ecotone in Northeastern Australia: A Synecological Approach Journal of Herpetology 33 (3): 409-419. - get paper here Denzer, Wolfgang; Ulrich Manthey 2016. Remarks on the taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus Hypsilurus Peters, 1867 (Reptilia, Agamidae, Amphibolurinae). Zoosyst. Evol. 92 (1): 103–110; DOI: 10.3897/zse.92.7469 - get paper here Greenbaum, E. 2000. Herpetofaunal observations in disparate habitats in south Sustralia, New South Wales, and queensland, Australia. Herpetological Bulletin (72): 6-16 - get paper here Kahl B, Gaupp P & Schmidt G 1980. Das Terrarium. Falken Verlag, Niederhausen (Germany), 336 pp. Macleay, W. 1884. Notes on some reptiles from the Herbert River, Queensland. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 8: 432-436 - get paper here Manthey, U. & Denzer, W. 2006. A revision of the Melanesian-Australian angle head lizards of the genus Hypsilurus (Sauria: Agamidae: Amphibolurinae), with description of four new species and one new subspecies. Hamadryad 30 (1-2): 1 – 40 - get paper here NOWAK, A. 2016. Husbandry and breeding of Boyd’s Forest Dragon Lophosaurus boydii (MACLEAY, 1884). Sauria 38 (3): 3-10 - get paper here Oudemans, J. Th. 1894. Eidechsen und Schildkröten. In Semon, R. Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 8:127—146 - get paper here Tallowin, Oliver J S; Shai Meiri, Stephen C Donnellan, Stephen J Richards, Christopher C Austin, Paul M Oliver 2019. The other side of the Sahulian coin: biogeography and evolution of Melanesian forest dragons (Agamidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 99-113. - get paper here Wells, R. 1972. Notes on Goniocephalus boydii (Macleay). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 5: 24 Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Zwinenberg, AJ. 1974. Boyd's forest dragon, Goniocephalus boydii (Macleay). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 10: 99-101 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/agamidae.pdf http://www.jcu.edu.au/dept/Zoology/herp/paluma.html http://reptile.senet.com.au/dragon.html http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/lizards/agamids/hboydi.htm http://www.wildherps.com/species/H.boydii.html http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Agamidae/Hypsilurus/boydii Google images

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