Tympanocryptis petersi Melville, Chaplin, Hipsley, Sarre, Sumner & Hutchinson, 2019 is a animal in the Agamidae family, order null, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Tympanocryptis petersi Melville, Chaplin, Hipsley, Sarre, Sumner & Hutchinson, 2019 (Tympanocryptis petersi Melville, Chaplin, Hipsley, Sarre, Sumner & Hutchinson, 2019)
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Tympanocryptis petersi Melville, Chaplin, Hipsley, Sarre, Sumner & Hutchinson, 2019

Tympanocryptis petersi Melville, Chaplin, Hipsley, Sarre, Sumner & Hutchinson, 2019

Tympanocryptis petersi, the lined earless dragon, is an agama species found in South Australia named to honor Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters.

Family
Genus
Tympanocryptis
Order
Class
Squamata

About Tympanocryptis petersi Melville, Chaplin, Hipsley, Sarre, Sumner & Hutchinson, 2019

Tympanocryptis petersi, commonly known as the lined earless dragon, is a species of agama that is found in South Australia. Its specific epithet, petersi, was chosen to honor Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters, who originally described the genus Tympanocryptis and the genus's type species, Tympanocryptis lineata.

Photo: (c) South Australian Museum Discovery Centre, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by South Australian Museum Discovery Centre · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Chordata Squamata Agamidae Tympanocryptis

More from Agamidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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