![]() | Painted Dragon Juvenile Back | Painted Dragon Orange Morph, Male, Profile | ![]() | |||
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. | |||||
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