#1731 · 🦎 reptiles

Jacky Dragon

Amphibolurus muricatus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Arthur Chapman · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © David Cook · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Adrian Tritschler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © David Cook · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The jacky dragon ( Amphibolurus muricatus ) is a type of lizard native to southeastern Australia. It was one of the first Australian reptiles to be named, originally described by English zoologist George Shaw in Surgeon-General John White’s Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales , which was published in London in 1790. It is well known for its bright yellow mouth and well-developed vertebral crest, as well as the temperature-dependent sex determination of its offspring. Other common...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,019iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,019 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John White in 1790 (236 years ago).