Aussie frilled dragon for sale

The aussie frilled dragon for sale (Chlamydosaurus kingii), also known commonly as the frilled agama, the frillneck lizard, the frill-necked lizard, and the frilled dragon, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea and is the only member of the genus Chlamydosaurus. Its common names refer to the large frill around its neck, which usually stays folded against the lizard’s body.

The frilled lizard grows to 90 cm (35 in) from head to tail tip and can weigh 600 g (1.3 lb). Males are larger and more robust than females. The lizard’s body is generally grey, brown, orangish-brown, or black in colour. The frills have red, orange, yellow, or white colours.

The frilled lizard is largely arboreal, spending most of its time in trees. Its diet consists mainly of insects and other invertebrates. It is more active during the wet season, when it spends more time near or on the ground, and is less observed during the dry season, during which it seeks shade in the branches of the upper canopy.

It breeds in the late dry season and early wet season. The Aussie frilled dragon for sale uses its frill to scare off predators and display to other individuals. The species is considered to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Males and females erect their frills during social encounters, which can be seen as a means of communication for the frilled neck lizard. The development of this feature has been linked to not only adaptation but also allometric relationships.

British zoologist John Edward Gray described the frilled lizard in 1825 as Clamydosaurus kingii. He used a specimen collected by botanist Allan Cunningham at Careening Bay, off north-western Australia, while part of an expedition conducted by Captain Phillip Parker King in HMS Mermaid.

The generic name, Chlamydosaurus, is derived from the Ancient Greek chlamydo (χλαμύς), meaning “cloaked” or “mantled”, and Latin saurus (sauros), meaning “lizard”. The specific name, kingii, is a Latinised form of King. It is the only species classified in its genus.

The frilled lizard is classified in the family Agamidae and the subfamily Amphibolurinae. It split from its closest living relatives around 10 million years ago based on genetic evidence.  A 2017 mitochondrial DNA analysis of the species across its range revealed three lineages demarcated by the Ord River and the southeast corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria (Carpentarian Gap).

One lineage ranged across Queensland and southern New Guinea and is sister to one that ranged from western Queensland to the Ord River.

The ancestor of these two split from a lineage that populates the Kimberley. Frilled lizards entered southern New Guinea possibly around 17,000 years ago during a glacial cycle, when sea levels were lower and a land bridge connected the island to Cape York. The study upholds C. kingii as one species with the different populations being “shallow allopatric clades“.

The following cladogram is based on Pyron and colleagues (2013).

The frilled lizard grows to a total length of around 90 centimetres (35 in) and a head-body length of 27 cm (11 in), and weighs up to 600 g (1.3 lb). It has a particularly large and wide head; a long neck to accommodate the frill; long legs and a tail that makes most of its total length.The species is sexually dimorphic, males being larger than females and having proportionally bigger frills, heads and jaws.