Mountain Dragon at Undefined Area
Identification history
| Rankinia diemensis | 23 Mar 2021 | PatrickCampbell | ||
| Rankinia diemensis | 8 Mar 2021 | Sarah2019 |
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User's notes
Bit of a guess as to ID.
1 comment
PatrickCampbell
wrote:
23 Mar 2021
You're correct, it's a juvenile Mountain Dragon and a very young one, that's probably recently hatched. The sides of the base of the tail are a good place to get close-up shots of in this species (or at least in focus and well illuminated) in order to help confirm ID. Rankinia diemensis can be distinguished from other similar looking dragon species in this part of the world by rows of enlarged spinose scales.
Location information
- Places Bundanoon, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- Sarah2019 Recorded by
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Collections
Sarah2019 Southern Highlands NatureMapr Rankinia diemensis Dragons Reptiles and Frogs
Species information
- Rankinia diemensis Scientific name
- Mountain Dragon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1716.5m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Tympanocryptis diemensis
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes