Intellagama lesueurii

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Amphibolurinae
Genus: Intellagama
Species:
Subspecies (2): I. l. howittii – I. l. lesueurii

Intellagama lesueurii (Gray, 1831)

• Holotype: MNHN-RA-0.392, collected by F. Péron and C.A. Lesueur between 1801–1803.
• Type locality: “Paramatta”, MNHN catalogue indicated “Port Jackson”.

• Lophura lesueurii Gray, 1831: 60 [original combination]
• Istiurus lesueurii — Duméril & Bibron, 1837: 384 [subsequent combination]
• Physignathus lesueurii — Gray, 1845: 248 [subsequent combination]
• Intellagama lesueurii — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 17 [subsequent combination]

• Gray, J.E. 1831. A synopsis of the species of Class Reptilia. In: Griffith, E & Pidgeon, E.. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organisation by the Baron Cuvier with additional descriptions of all the species hither named, and of many before noticed. Volume the ninth. The class Reptilia arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with specific descriptions. Whittaker, Treacher and Co.: London. 110 pp. (Appendix) BHL Reference page. 
• Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1837. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome Quatrième (In French). Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. ii + 572 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page. 

• Townsend, T.M., Mulcahy, D.G., Noonan, B.P., Sites, Jr., J.W., Kuczynski, C.A., Wiens, J.J. & Reeder, T.W. 2011. Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29 nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 363–380. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.008 . PDF Reference page. 
• Amey, A.P., Couper, P.J. & Shea, G.M. 2012. Intellagama lesueurii (Gray, 1831), the correct binomial combination for the Australian Eastern Water Dragon (Sauria, Agamidae). Zootaxa 3390(1): 65–67. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3390.1.6 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Intellagama lesueurii. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 July 2022.
• Tallowin, O., Hobson, R., Venz, M., Wilson, S., Shea, G. & Vanderduys, E. 2018. IUCN: Intellagama lesueurii  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22566194A22566245. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T22566194A22566245.en. Accessed on 25 July 2022.

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