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Hydrosaurus amboinensis (Sailfin Lizard)

Synonyms: Lacerta amboinensis; Lacerta javanica; Lacerta lophura; Lophura shawii

Wikipedia Abstract

The Amboina sail-finned lizard or Amboina sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus amboinensis) is the largest agamid lizard in the world, growing to over one metre in length. It is found in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Due to confusion with H. pustulatus, its exact distribution in the Philippines is uncertain, but northern populations are generally considered H. pustulatus and southern considered H. amboinensis. This lizard is able to run short distances across water using both its feet and tail for support, an ability shared with the plumed basilisk.
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Attributes

Gestation [1]  79 days
Litter Size [1]  6
Maximum Longevity [3]  24 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Habitat Substrate [2]  Semi-aquatic

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Danau Matano - Towuti Recreation Parks Nature Recreation Park V 96082 Sulawesi, Indonesia  
Lore Lindu National Park II 577959 Sulawesi, Indonesia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Philippines Philippines No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

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
3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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