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COMMON NAME:
Southern Angle Headed Dragon
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Hypsilurus spinipes
STATUS: Secure
SIZE (mm): 150
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DESCRIPTION: The Southern Angle Headed Dragon (Hypsilurus
spinipes) is native to eastern Australian rainforests and rainforest
margins from around Gosford in NSW to near Gympie in Queensland.
PREFERRED HABITAT: The Southern Angle Headed Dragon
is cryptic, slow moving and well camouflaged. Sometimes encountered
basking in sunlight after rain. Often perching on buttresses, sapling
stems or old stumps. They tend not to dash for cover, but slide discreetly
out of view.
DIET: The diet includes insects and other arthropods
such as spiders and centipedes. Eggs are laid in shallow nests in
rainforest clearings, including road edges and walking tracks. There
is some evidence that will occasionally lay communal nests. The eggs
are vulnerable to predation. particularly by goannas.
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