THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS, DISTRIBUTION MAPS AND INFORMATION
This site covers Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles, including Colubrid snakes, Pythons, Elapids (called Cobras or Coral Snakes in some countries), Sea Snakes, File Snakes, Blind (or Worm) Snakes, Sea Turtles, Freshwater Turtles (or Tortoises) Dragon Lizards (Agamas), Gecko's, Legless Lizards, Monitor Lizards (often called Goanna's in Australia), Skinks and Crocodilia.

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COLUBRID SNAKES - Colubridae Homalopsidae Mud Snakes

PYTHON SNAKES - Pythonidae

ELAPID SNAKES - Elapidae Cobras Coral Snakes

SEA SNAKES - Hydrophiinae Laticaudidae Sea Kraits

FILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae

BLIND SNAKES - Worm Snakes - Typhlopidae Ramphotyphlops

 

Colubrids & Mud Snakes

Pythons

 

 

Elapid Snakes

 

Sea
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Kraits

File Snakes

 

Blind Snakes

 

TURTLES Tortoises Chelonii Testudines

DRAGON LIZARDS Agamas Agamidae

GECKO LIZARDS Gekkonidae

LEGLESS LIZARDS Pygopodidae Pygopods

MONITOR LIZARDS Goannas Varanids Varanidae

SKINK LIZARDS Scincidae

CROCODILES Crocodylia Crocodilia Saltwater freshwater estuarine

Turtles Tortoises

Dragons Agamas

Geckos

 

Legless Lizards

Monitor Lizards

Skinks

 

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BOYD'S ANGLE-HEADED DRAGON
Lophosaurus boydii

(was Hypsilurus boydii)

(was Gonocepalus boydii)

BOYD'S ANGLE-HEADED DRAGON Lophosaurus boydii

BOYD'S ANGLE-HEADED DRAGON Hypsilurus Gonocepalus boydii REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA 
 


BOYD'S ANGLE-HEADED DRAGON Hypsilurus Gonocepalus boydii REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA
Specimen from Cape Tribulation National Park, Qld.

BOYD'S ANGLE-HEADED DRAGON Hypsilurus Gonocepalus boydii REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA map

This secretive species lives in Rainforests, and lays approximately 3 eggs in a clutch.
Its diet consists mainly of insects and it is primarily arboreal and diurnal.


LINKS OF INTEREST

Click here for a complete list of Australian Dragons (Agamas)

Click here for more information about Australian Dragons (Agamas)


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