Intellagama lesueurii howittii
1 Gippsland Water Dragon at Stromlo, ACT
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| Intellagama lesueurii howittii | GeoffRobertson | 30 Jan 2019 | |
| Intellagama lesueurii howittii | JonSteinbeck | 30 Jan 2019 |
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The first photo was a male. It was about three metres from where I saw the other lizard. It was resting on the end of a tree that had fallen into the river. The lizard was wet like it had just been swimming but was in no rush to leave the water. The third photo shows the one I almost trod on. I was walking east along the path when a “branch” near my foot suddenly ran towards the river. Fortunately the dragon ran onto a branch that had fallen into the river where it stopped. It kept an eye on me for a while, before it also started to look at things in the water, although I was not sure what it was eyeing off. After a while it moved a little further along the branch before pausing again, checking me out from its new location. It repeated this a couple of times, not rushing, just moving at a steady pace but nor moving far until it finally crawled into the leaves at the end of the branch that were resting in the water.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.959858-35.319048
- Altitude 482.8m
- Maps Cotter Reserve
- Places Stromlo, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 28 Jan 2019 07:31 AM Recorded on
- JonSteinbeck Recorded by
- Mixed Gender
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- BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Intellagama lesueurii howittii Dragons Reptiles and Frogs
Species information
- Intellagama lesueurii howittii Scientific name
- Gippsland Water Dragon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1177.8m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Physignathus lesueurii
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