Hypsilurus boydii
| Boyd's forest dragon | |
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| Boyd's forest dragon in the Daintree National Park | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Genus: | Lophosaurus |
| Species: | L. boydii |
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Lophosaurus boydii (Macleay, 1884) |
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Boyd's forest dragon (Lophosaurus boydii, formerly Hypsilurus boydii) is a species of arboreal agamid lizard found in rainforests and their margins in the Wet Tropics region of northern Queensland, Australia. It is the larger of the two species of Lophosaurus found in Australia. The other species, the southern angle-headed dragon, L. spinipes, is found in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
The generic name Lophosaurus stands for "crested lizard", from the Greek lophos for ‘crest’, and saurus for 'lizard'. The specific name, boydii, is a reference to English-born John Archibald Boyd (1846–1926), who lived in Fiji from 1865 to 1882 and then on a sugar plantation at Ingham, Queensland, and collected specimens for the Australian Museum. The binomial authority is William John Macleay, who provided the original description of the species in 1884.
The species is restricted to rainforests and their margins in northern Queensland, Australia, from just north of Townsville to near Cooktown. It is found in both upland and lowland rainforest, and is often seen around Lake Eacham (Yidyam) and Lake Barrine, and in parts of Malanda Falls Conservation Park and at Mossman Gorge.
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