#1626 · 🦎 reptiles
Australian Water Dragon
🇳🇱 Australische wateragame ·Intellagama lesueurii
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what is it?
The Australian water dragon ( Intellagama lesueurii , formerly Physignathus lesueurii ), which includes the eastern water dragon ( I. l. lesueurii ) and the Gippsland water dragon ( I. l. howittii ) subspecies, is an arboreal agamid species native to eastern Australia from Victoria northwards to Queensland. There may be a small introduced population on the south-east coast of South Australia.
base stats
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.
- 32,837 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1831 (195 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Australian Water Dragon
- Nederlands
- Australische wateragame
- scientific name
- Intellagama lesueurii
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Agamidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 32,837
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1831 by John Edward Gray
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 146186, Wikidata Q24557484, GBIF 8161292, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.