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Intellagama lesueurii (lesueurii)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Australian water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii, formerly Physignathus lesueurii ), which includes the eastern water dragon (I. l. lesueurii ) and the Gippsland water dragon (I. l. howittii ) subspecies, is an arboreal agamid species native to eastern Australia from Victoria northwards to Queensland. There may be a small introduced population on the south-east coast of South Australia.
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Infraspecies

Intellagama lesueurii howittii (Gippsland Water Dragon)
Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii (Eastern Water Dragon)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.232 lbs (559 g)
Birth Weight [2]  3 grams
Female Weight [2]  215 grams
Gestation [2]  86 days
Litter Size [2]  11
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  19 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  9 inches (23 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Semi-aquatic

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

Myrmecia nigrocincta[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Oswaldofilaria innisfailensis <Unverified Name>[6]
Oswaldofilaria pffugfelderi <Unverified Name>[6]
Oswaldofilaria samfordensis <Unverified Name>[6]
Pseudothamugadia physignathi <Unverified Name>[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Meiri, 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
♦ 4de 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
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 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