Hypsilurus is a genus of arboreal lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Melanesia.
Species
, Hypsilurus contains the following 18 species:
- Hypsilurus auritus
- Hypsilurus binotatus – two-marked forest dragon
- Hypsilurus bruijnii – Bruijn's forest dragon
- Hypsilurus capreolatus
- Hypsilurus geelvinkianus – New Guinea forest dragon
- Hypsilurus godeffroyi – northern forest dragon
- Hypsilurus hikidanus – Hikida's forest dragon
- Hypsilurus longi – Long's forest dragon
- Hypsilurus macrolepis
- Hypsilurus magnus
- Hypsilurus modestus – modest forest dragon
- Hypsilurus nigrigularis
- Hypsilurus ornatus – Denzer's forest dragon
- Hypsilurus papuensis – Papua forest dragon
- Hypsilurus schoedei – Vogt's forest dragon
- Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi
- Hypsilurus spinosus
- Hypsilurus tenuicephalus
Three species previously assigned to the genus Hypsilurus have now been moved to the genus Lophosaurus:
- Hypsilurus boydii <small>(Macleay, 1884)</small> – Boyd's forest dragon
- Hypsilurus dilophus <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837)</small> – Indonesian forest dragon
- Hypsilurus spinipes <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851)</small> – southern forest dragon, southern angle-headed dragon
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Hypsilurus.
References
Further reading
- 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.
- 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 German).