Mountain Dragon at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Rankinia diemensis | 23 Feb 2019 | GeoffRobertson | ||
| Rankinia diemensis | 23 Feb 2019 | SWishart |
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User's notes
One of four that I saw (more accurately, nearly stepped on) on the stockyard spur management trail - each was a fair distance from the next. This is the only one that did the 'if I stay really still, she won't see me'. The others disappeared rapidly into the undergrowth
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GeoffRobertson
wrote:
24 Feb 2019
Good comment and nice that you your photo shows the spines on the side of the tail.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.790495-35.550292
- Altitude 1708.8m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Feb 2019 02:30 PM Recorded on
- SWishart Recorded by
Species information
- Rankinia diemensis Scientific name
- Mountain Dragon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1716.5m Recorded at altitude
- 94 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Tympanocryptis diemensis
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- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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