Southern Mallee Dragon: S4, dorsal, Very Dark

Southern Mallee Dragon (Ctenophorus tuniluki)

Class:

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

Order:

Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)

Family:

Dragon (Agamidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Southern Mallee Dragon (Ctenophorus tuniluki)

This Photo:

🔍S4, dorsal, Very Dark🔎

Thank you Ralph Foster & Sam Gordon for identifying and Matt Campbell (MattCampbellAUS) & Stephen Mahony for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
Ctenophorus fordii was broken up into a number of different species. Here it is now represented by Ctenophorus spinodomus & Ctenophorus tuniluki.
Note here that S4 is VERY dark, possibly about to moult.

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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