Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.
 
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Genus
Intellagama
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Common Australian Water Dragon
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Australische Wasseragame
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Almindelig Australsk Vandagam
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Intellagama Wells & Wellington (type species: Lophura lesueurii Gray 1831) |
Contents:
1 species, which is endemic.
Endemism: 0%  100%
Remarks:
Previously included in Physignathus (e.g., Wermuth 1967; Cogger, Cameron & Cogger 1983; Cogger 1996). Revalidated under the generic name Istiurus by Townsend, Mulcahy, Noonan, Sites, Kuczynski, Wiens & Reeder (2011), however, Amey, Couper & Shea (2012) showed that Istiurus is a synonym of Hydrosaurus, and that the valid generic name for the Eastern Australian Water Dragon is Intellagama. Although recognized as a separate genus already by Wells & Wellington (1985), who described Intellagama as a new genus, that arrangement had mostly been ignored, because their description provided no supporting evidence of the validity of Intellagama as a separate genus.
Distribution:
As for the single species.
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Intellagama lesueurii
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Common Australian Water Dragon, Brown Water Dragon
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Australische Wasseragame
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Almindelig Australsk Vandagam
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Lophura lesueurii Gray |
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Istiurus lesueurii Duméril & Duméril 1851 |
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Physignathus lesueurii Gray 1867 |
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Intellagama lesueurii Wells & Wellington 1985 |
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1843 | |
Iguana paramatensis Fitzinger (Cogger, Cameron & Cogger 1983) |
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1857 | |
Amphibolurus maculiferus Girard (Cogger, Cameron & Cogger 1983) |
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1866 | |
Amphibolurus heterurus Peters (Boulenger 1885; Cogger, Cameron & Cogger 1983) |
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1884 | |
Amphibolurus branchialis De Vis (Boulenger 1885; Cogger, Cameron & Cogger 1983) |
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1884 | |
Physignathus lesueuri var. howitti McCoy |
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Physignathus howitti Wells & Wellington 1984 |
Other common names:
howitti: Gippsland Water Dragon
lesueurii: Eastern Australian Water Dragon
Remarks:
Although reported from New Guinea, the species probably does not occur there. The only vouchered record is from Arfak Mountains, Western New Guinea, Indonesia, which was probably based on a specimen introduced from Australia (Watkins-Colwell & Johnston 1999). Known in South Australia from a feral population of uncertain status in the Adelaide Hills (Houston & Hutchinson 1998).
Introduced to:
Australia
(South Australia).
Distribution:
Australia
(Australian Capital Territory,
New South Wales,
Queensland
[incl.
Fraser Island],
Victoria).
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Intellagama lesueurii
© Rune Midtgaard
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