Water Dragon Shedding Skin by Kaye Menner

Photograph of a large Australian Water Dragon or Eastern Water Dragon shedding its skin. The colors of the new skin are amazing. This is one of the... more

by Kaye Menner

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Water Dragon Shedding Skin by Kaye Menner

Artist

Kaye Menner

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Photograph - Photography

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Photograph of a large Australian Water Dragon or Eastern Water Dragon shedding its skin. The colors of the new skin are amazing. This is one of the most colorful Eastern Water Dragons I have seen (once all the old skin is gone). I added a touch of texture to the background of this image.
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[Courtesy Wikipedia]
The Australian water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii, formerly Physignathus lesueurii), which includes the eastern water dragon (I. l. lesueurii ) and the Gippsland water dragon (I. l. howittii) subspecies, is an arboreal agamid species native to eastern Australia from Victoria northwards to Queensland. There may be a small introduced population on the south-east coast of South Australia.

Australian water dragons have long powerful limbs and claws for climbing, a long muscular laterally-compressed tail for swimming, and prominent nuchal and vertebral crests. (A nuchal crest is a central row of spikes at the base of the head. These spikes continue down the spine, getting smaller as they reach the base of the tail.)
Including their tails, which comprise about two-thirds of their total length, adult females grow to about 60 cm (2 feet) long, and adult males can grow slightly longer than one metre (3 feet) and weigh about 1 kg. Males show bolder colouration and have larger heads than females. Colour is less distinct in juveniles.

Family: Agamidae
Genus: Intellagama

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February 13th, 2018