Species

Leiolepis glaurung

Leiolepis glaurung · described by WANCHAI, RUJIRAWAN, MURDOCH, AKSORNNEAM, PROMNUN, KAATZ, GREGORY, NGUYEN, VAN IDERSTEIN, QUAH, GRISMER, GRISMER & AOWPHOL 2024

Butterfly Lizard, a close relative of Leiolepis glaurung

Pictured: Butterfly Lizard, a close relative from the same genus. This species is still waiting for its first free photo.

Photo: Thomas Hardwicke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The facts

Scientific name
Leiolepis glaurung
First described
WANCHAI, RUJIRAWAN, MURDOCH, AKSORNNEAM, PROMNUN, KAATZ, GREGORY, NGUYEN, VAN IDERSTEIN, QUAH, GRISMER, GRISMER & AOWPHOL 2024
Class
Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order
Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Group
Lizards (Sauria)
Family
Agamidae
Genus
Leiolepis

Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.

Where it sits on the tree