Painted Dragon: Female

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)

Order:

Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)

Family:

Dragon (Agamidae)

Species:

Painted Dragon (Ctenophorus pictus)

This Photo:

Female

Thank you Mark Hura for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Painted dragons are a beautifully coloured, small, dragon lizard native to Australia.
Females are plain brown coloured.
Males come in 4 colour morphs: Blue, Orange, Red & Yellow colours. All male morphs have blue belly & legs. The Blue morphs have a blue throat with white / brown cheeks like females.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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