''Hypsilurus bruijnii'', also known
commonly as the Bruijn forest dragon, the Bruijni forest dragon, and Bruijn's forest dragon, is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Agamidae
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Overview
Phylogenetically ...
. The species is native to
Indonesia
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and
Papua New Guinea
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.
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Etymology
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''bruijnii'', is in honor of Dutch naturalist Anton August Bruijn.
Habitat
The natural habitat
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of ''H. bruijnii'' is rainforest
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Description
Medium-sized for its genus,[ ''H. bruijnii'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , with a tail length of .][ Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I ... Agamidæ''. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor & Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (''Gonyocephalus bruijnii'', p. 295).]
Reproduction
''H. bruijnii'' is oviparous
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References
Further reading
* Peters W, Doria G (1978). "''Catalogo dei rettili e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D' Albertis e A. A. Bruijn nella sotto-regione austro-malese''". ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, irst Series' 13: 323–450 + Plates I–VII. ("''Gonyocephalus (Hypsilurus) Bruijnii'' ", new species, pp. 379–380). (in Italian and Latin).
Hypsilurus
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
Taxa named by Giacomo Doria
Reptiles described in 1878
Agamid lizards of New Guinea
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