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Amphibolurus muricatus (Jacky Lashtail, Jacky Lizard)

Synonyms: Agama jacksoniensis; Agama muricata; Grammatophora muricata; Lacerta muricata (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The jacky dragon, Amphibolurus muricatus, is a type of lizard native to southeastern Australia. It was one of the first Australian reptiles to be named, originally described by English zoologist George Shaw in Surgeon-General John White’s Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, which was published in London in 1790. It is well known for its bright yellow mouth and well-developed vertebral crest, as well as the temperature-dependent sex determination of its offspring. Other common names include blood-sucker, stonewalker, and tree dragon.
View Wikipedia Record: Amphibolurus muricatus

Attributes

Gestation [1]  49 days
Litter Size [3]  6
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

Aquila audax (Wedge-tailed Eagle)[4]
Demansia psammophis (Yellow-faced Whipsnake, Yellow-Faced Whip Snake)[5]
Demansia vestigiata (Black whip snake)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Maxvachonia brygooi <Unverified Name>[6]
Oswaldofilaria chlamydosauri <Unverified Name>[6]
Skrjabinoptera gallardi <Unverified Name>[6]
Strongyluris paronai <Unverified Name>[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3Life-history strategies of Australian lizards: a comparison between the tropics and the temperate zone, Craig James and Richard Shine, Oecologia (Berlin) (1988) 75:307-316
♦ 4Breeding Biology and Diet of the Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax in the New England Region of New South Wales, S.J.S. DEBUS, T.S. HATFIELD, A.J. LEY and A.B. ROSE, AUSTRALIAN FIELD ORNITHOLOGY 2007, 24, 93–120
♦ 5Ecology of Eastern Australian Whipsnakes of the Genus Demansia, Richard Shine, Journal of Herpetology 14(4):381-389 (1980)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0