Ctenophorus is a genus of lizards, also known as the dragon sling , which contains Australia's most diverse lizards group. Many of these have been grouped by similar morphology. The names and informal groups in this genus - rock, crevice-, ground, sand-, and bicycle-dragon - are named by mythological creatures, dragons.
The ctenophorus lizard may be confused with the Tympanocryptis and Diporiphora genera.
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Species
There are 29 species recognized in the genus.
- Ctenophorus adelaidensis (Gray, 1841) - western health dragons
- Ctenophorus butleri (Storr, 1977)
- Ctenophorus caudicinctus (GÃÆ'¼nther, 1875) - tails tailed dragon, dragon tailed ring
- Ctenophorus chapmani (Storr, 1977)
- Ctenophorus clayi (Storr, 1967) - black ground dragon, black collared dragon
- Ctenophorus cristatus (Gray 1841) - dragons dragon bikes, crested dragons, dragon bikes
- Ctenophorus decresii (A.M.C. DumÃÆ'Â © ril & amp; Bibron, 1837) - brown minced dragon, brown dragon
- Ctenophorus femoral (Storr, 1965) - long-tailed sand dragons
- Ctenophorus fionni (Procter, 1923) - Peninsula crevice-dragon, Dragon Peninsula
- Ctenophorus fordi (Storr, 1965) - Mallee dragon, Mallee sand-dragon, Mallee military dragon
- Ctenophorus gibba (Houston, 1974) - Bulldust land-dragon, gibber dragon
- Ctenophorus isolepis (Fischer, 1881) - central military dragon
- Ctenophorus maculatus (Gray, 1831) - see military dragon, spotted dragon, see sand dragon
- Ctenophorus maculosus (F.J. Mitchell, 1948) - Dragon Lake Eyre, dragon sea salt
- Ctenophorus mckenziei (Storr, 1981) - bike-dragon dagger, dragon McKenzie
- Ctenophorus mirrityana McLean et al., 2013
- Ctenophorus nguyar Doughty, Maryan, Melville & amp; J. Austin, 2007 - Dragon Lake Disappointment
- Ctenophorus nuchalis (De Vis, 1884) - dragon netted center, middle dragon netted
- Ctenophorus ornatus (gray, 1845) - ornate dragon, carved serpent dragon
- Ctenophorus parviceps (Storr, 1964)
- Ctenophorus pictus (W. Peters, 1866) - dragons painted
- Ctenophorus reticulatus (Gray, 1845) - dragon netted west, dragon netted west
- Ctenophorus rubens (Storr, 1965) - flushed the dragon-sand, dragon sand rufus
- Ctenophorus rufescens (Stirling & Zietz, 1893) - rusting rusting dragon, rusted dragon
- Ctenophorus salinarum (Storr, 1966) - dragon ground saltpan, draypan drag
- Ctenophorus scutulatus (Stirling & Zietz, 1893) - a dragon with a lozenge, a horse-marked dragon with a lozenge sign
- Ctenophorus tjantjalka Johnston, 1992 - dragon oker
- Ctenophorus vadnappa Houston, 1974 - dragons red, red dragons
- Ctenophorus yinnietharra (Storr, 1981) - Yinnietharra crevice-dragon, dragon rock Yinnietharra
Nota bene : Binomial authority in parentheses indicates that this species was originally described in a genus other than Ctenophorus .
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Polymorphism
The lizard of the genus Ctenophorus is known to display color polymorphisms, more than one type of color found in a population. It is believed that the color polymorphisms in this group have evolved as a result of a combination of sexual selection and natural selection.
References
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