| Draconinae | |
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| Common gliding lizard (Draco sumatranus), Singapore | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Subfamily: | Draconinae Fitzinger, 1826 |
| Genera | |
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The Draconinae are a subfamily of reptiles in the family Agamidae found in southern Asia and Oceania. Some taxonomists believe these genera belong to the subfamily Agaminae.
Genera[edit]
The subfamily includes the following genera:[1]
- Acanthosaura – mountain horned dragons
- Agasthyagama – Indian kangaroo lizard
- Aphaniotis
- Bronchocela
- Calotes – garden lizards, bloodsuckers, and forest lizards
- Ceratophora
- Complicitus
- Cophotis
- Cristidorsa
- Dendragama
- Diploderma
- Draco – 'flying' lizards or gliding lizards
- Gonocephalus
- Harpesaurus
- Hypsicalotes
- Japalura
- Laodracon Brakels, Sitthivong, Wang, Nguyen & Poyarkov, 2023
- Lophocalotes
- Lyriocephalus
- Lyriocephalus scutatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – hump-nosed lizard, lyreshead lizard
- Malayodracon
- Mantheyus
- Mantheyus phuwuanensis Manthey & Nabhitabhata, 1991 – Phuwua rock agama
- Microauris
- Microauris aurantolabium (Pal et al., 2018) – small-eared dragon
- Monilesaurus
- Otocryptis
- Pelturagonia
- Phoxophrys
- Phoxophrys tuberculata Hubrecht, 1881 – Hubrecht's eyebrow lizard
- Psammophilus
- Pseudocalotes
- Pseudocophotis
- Ptyctolaemus
- Salea
- Sarada – large fan-throated lizards
- Sitana – fan-throated lizards
- †Tikiguania
Gallery[edit]
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Sulawesi lined gliding lizard (Draco spilonotus) – male extending gular flag and patagium in Sulawesi, Indonesia -
peninsular rock agama (Psammophilus dorsalis) – male breeding coloration in Keesara, Rangareddy District, Telangana, India -
fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana) at Pocharam Lake, Telangana -
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Indo-Chinese forest lizard (Calotes mystaceus) in Bangkok, Thailand
References[edit]
- ^ Draconinae, UniProt Taxonomy
- ^ Denzer, W.; Manthey, U.; Mahlow, K.; Böhme, W. (2015). "The systematic status of Gonocephalus robinsonii Boulenger, 1908 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae)". Zootaxa. 4039 (1): 129–144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.5. PMID 26624470.
Media related to Draconinae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Draconinae at Wikispecies
