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Pogona minor (Western Bearded Dragon, Dwarf Bearded Dragon)

Synonyms: Amphibolurus barbatus minimus; Amphibolurus barbatus minor; Amphibolurus minor; Amphibolurus mitchelli; Pogona loriae

Wikipedia Abstract

Pogona minor is a species of agamid lizard from a group commonly known as bearded dragons, and is found on the southwest coast and interior of Western Australia. This taxonomic name includes the widespread type known as western bearded dragon, Pogona minor minor, and the subspecies, Pogona minor minima, confined to the Wallabi Group of islands.
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Infraspecies

Pogona minor minima (Abrolhos bearded dragon)
Pogona minor minor
Pogona minor mitchelli

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  31 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  115 grams
Gestation [2]  70 days
Litter Size [2]  9
Litters / Year [2]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  10 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  7 inches (17 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fitzgerald River National Park II 732417 Western Australia, Australia
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia
Stirling Range National Park II 281371 Western Australia, Australia
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park II 332429 Northern Territory, Australia

Ecosystems

Predators

Suta nigriceps (Mallee Black-backed Snake)[4]
Varanus gouldii (Sand Monitor, Gould's Goanna)[5]
Varanus tristis orientalis (Black-tailed Monitor, Black-headed Monitor)[5]

Consumers

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
♦ 4Food Habits and Reproductive Biology of Small Australian Snakes of the Genera Unechis and Suta (Elapidae), RICHARD SHINE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 307-315, 1988
♦ 5Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria Desert, Eric R. Pianka, Australian Journal of Ecology (1994) 19, 395-408
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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