Draconinae
The Draconinae are a subfamily of reptiles in the family Agamidae found in southern Asia and Oceania. Some taxonomists believe these genera belong to the subfamily Agaminae.
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| Common gliding lizard (Draco sumatranus), Singapore | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Subfamily: | Draconinae |
| Genera | |
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Genera
The subfamily includes the following genera:[1]
- Acanthosaura – mountain horned dragons
- Aphaniotis
- Bronchocela
- Calotes – garden lizards, bloodsuckers, and forest lizards
- Ceratophora
- Complicitus
- Cophotis
- Cristidorsa
- Dendragama
- Diploderma
- Draco – 'flying' lizards or gliding lizards
- Gonocephalus
- Harpesaurus
- Hypsicalotes
- Japalura
- Lophocalotes
- Lyriocephalus
- Lyriocephalus scutatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – hump-nosed lizard, lyreshead lizard
- Malayodracon
- Malayodracon robinsonii [2]
- Mantheyus
- Mantheyus phuwuanensis Manthey & Nabhitabhata, 1991 – Phuwua rock agama
- Microauris
- Microauris aurantolabium (Pal et al., 2018) – small-eared dragon
- Mictopholis - sometimes classified with Pseudocalotes
- Mictopholis austeniana (Annandale, 1908) – Annandale's dragon
- Monilesaurus
- Otocryptis
- Pelturagonia
- Phoxophrys
- Phoxophrys tuberculata Hubrecht, 1881 – Hubrecht's eyebrow lizard
- Psammophilus
- Pseudocalotes
- Pseudocophotis
- Ptyctolaemus
- Salea
- Sarada – large fan-throated lizards
- Sitana – fan-throated lizards
- Thaumatorhynchus
- †Tikiguania
Gallery
Sulawesi lined gliding lizard (Draco spilonotus) – male extending gular flag and patagium in Sulawesi, Indonesia-_Male_breeding_plumage-_in_Hyderabad%2C_AP_W_IMG_7714.jpg)
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fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana) at Pocharam Lake, Telangana_(8741731328).jpg)
giant forest dragon (Gonocephalus grandis) in Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia
Indo-Chinese forest lizard (Calotes mystaceus) in Bangkok, Thailand
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References
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Wikispecies has information related to Draconinae |
- Draconinae, UniProt Taxonomy
- Denzer, W., Manthey, U., Mahlow, K. & Böhme, W. 2015. The systematic status of Gonocephalus robinsonii Boulenger, 1908 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae). Zootaxa 4039 (1): 129–144.
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