#1720 · 🦎 reptiles
Central Bearded Dragon
🇳🇱 Baardagame ·Pogona vitticeps
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what is it?
Pogona vitticeps , the central (or inland ) bearded dragon , is a species of agamid lizard occurring in a wide range of arid to semiarid regions of Australia. This species is very popularly kept as a pet and exhibited in zoos.
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.
- 7,624 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ernst Ahl in 1927 (99 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Central Bearded Dragon
- Nederlands
- Baardagame
- scientific name
- Pogona vitticeps
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Agamidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,624
- GBIF records in NL
- 3
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1927 by Ernst Ahl
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Agamidae
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#1626 📷 10Australian Water Dragon
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LC 🌍 32.8k seen
#1652 📷 10Peters's Rock Agama
Agama picticauda
LC 🌍 17.2k seen
#1660 📷 10Taiwan Japalure
Diploderma swinhonis
LC 🌍 14.9k seen
#1682 📷 8Southern Rock Agama
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke rotsagame
Agama atra
LC 🌍 11.5k seen
#1706 📷 7Eastern Bearded Dragon
Pogona barbata
LC 🌍 8.7k seen
#1719 📷 9Wang’s Garden Lizard
Calotes wangi
🌍 7.6k seen
#1731 📷 7Jacky Dragon
Amphibolurus muricatus
LC 🌍 7k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 31411, Wikidata Q792301, GBIF 2465641, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.