Jacky Lizard
Amphibolurus muricatus
Family Agamidae
About
The jacky dragon is a type of lizard native to south-eastern Australia. Other common names include blood-sucker, stonewalker, and tree dragon. It was one of the first Australian reptiles to be named by Europeans, originally described by English zoologist George Shaw in Surgeon-General John White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, published in London in 1790. The lizard is well-known for its bright yellow mouth and well-developed vertebral crest, as well as the temperature-dependent sex determination of its offspring.
How to spot it
Real occurrence confirmed near Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve (Atlas of Living Australia, 1990) — no separate physical description was available on Wikipedia for this species, see the source link for more.
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve — Canberra & Namadgi National Park hikes