''Hypsilurus'' is a
genus
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of
arboreal
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lizard
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s in the
family
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Agamidae
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Overview
Phylogenetically ...
. The genus is
endemic
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to
Melanesia
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.
Species
, ''Hypsilurus'' contains the following 18
species
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:
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Hypsilurus auritus''
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Hypsilurus binotatus'' – two-marked forest dragon
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Hypsilurus bruijnii'' –
Bruijn's forest dragon
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Hypsilurus capreolatus''
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Hypsilurus geelvinkianus'' – New Guinea forest dragon
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Hypsilurus godeffroyi'' – northern forest dragon
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Hypsilurus hikidanus'' – Hikida's forest dragon
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Hypsilurus longi'' – Long's forest dragon
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Hypsilurus macrolepis''
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Hypsilurus magnus''
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Hypsilurus modestus'' – modest forest dragon
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Hypsilurus nigrigularis''
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Hypsilurus ornatus'' – Denzer's forest dragon
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Hypsilurus papuensis'' – Papua forest dragon
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Hypsilurus schoedei'' – Vogt's forest dragon
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Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi''
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Hypsilurus spinosus''
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Hypsilurus tenuicephalus''
Three species previously assigned to the genus ''Hypsilurus'' have now been moved to the genus ''
Lophosaurus'':
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Hypsilurus boydii''
(Macleay, 1884) – Boyd's forest dragon
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Hypsilurus dilophus''
(A.M.C. Duméril
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, 1837) – Indonesian forest dragon
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Hypsilurus spinipes''
(A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – southern forest dragon, southern angle-headed dragon
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binomial authority
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Hypsilurus''.
References
Further reading
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Manthey U,
Denzer W (2016). "Melanesian anglehead lizards of the genus ''Hypsilurus'' Peters, 1867 – Part 1: Species from New Guinea". ''Sauria'' 38 (3): 11–36.
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Peters W (1867). "''Über Flederthiere ... und Amphibien ('' Hypsilurus ... '')''". ''Monatsberichte der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1867: 703–712. (''Hypsilurus'', new subgenus, pp. 707–708). (in
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Lizard genera
Reptiles of Oceania
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters